Quotes about Virtue
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
— Alexander Hamilton
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
— William Hazlitt
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
— Francis de Sales
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
— Robert Barron
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
— Jonathan Edwards
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
— Ayn Rand
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
— Paul Tillich
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
— Brennan Manning
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
— Confucius