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