1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.

Why do we fall in love? I do believeThat virtue is the magnet, the small veinOf ore, the spark, the torch that we receive At birth, and that we render back again.That drop of godhood, like a precious stone,May shine the brightest in the tiniest flakeLavished to saints, to sinners not unknown;

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.

The essence of all virtues is one and the same, it's love.