Quotes about Virtue
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
— William Hazlitt
Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
— TB Joshua
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.
— Joseph Wirthlin
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— St. Augustine
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
— Johannes Tauler
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love
— Henry B. Eyring