Quotes about Virtue
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.
- Pope Benedict XVI
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
- CS Lewis
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
- Aristotle
Your wisdom should be without pride.
- St. Augustine
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
- CS Lewis
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
- St. Augustine
He who spares the bad injures the good.
- Publilius Syrus
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
- Francis de Sales
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
- Peter Kreeft
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
- Aristotle
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- St. Augustine