Quotes about Virtue
Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.
— Martin Luther
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
— Steven Pressfield
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
— St. Augustine
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
— Thomas Jefferson
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.
— Thomas Monson
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
— Confucius
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
— Dante Alighieri
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
— Joseph Addison