Quotes about Virtue
Just as junk food and lack of exercise can ruin an athlete's condition, those things that are obscene, crude, or pornographic can breed an inner darkness that numbs our higher sensibilities and substitutes the social conscience of "Will I be found out?" for the natural or divine conscience of "What is right and wrong?
— Stephen Covey
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
— Dante Alighieri
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
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.
— Pope Francis
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