logo

Quotes About Virtue

Conscience never dies the cricket said There will always be a cricket for those who deserve, who are worthy.
~ Salman Rushdie
And just as some people have obvious moral deficits, others must possess moral talent, moral expertise, and even moral genius. As with any human ability, these gradations must be expressed at the level of the brain. Game
~ Sam Harris
Surround our children with a message of honor
~ Michael Josephson
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
~ Democritus
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
~ Democritus
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
~ Immanuel Kant
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
~ Zhuangzi
Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
~ A. R. Bernard
We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.
~ Peter Damian
For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
~ Gautama Buddha
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion.
~ Donald Curtis
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
~ George H. W. Bush
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength
~ Dalai Lama
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
~ Benjamin Franklin
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
~ Thomas Lickona
Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.
~ John Woolman
Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
~ Michael Josephson
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman
~ Laozi
Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.
~ Elaine S. Dalton
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
~ Aeschylus