Quotes About Virtue

Integrity gains strength by use.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.