Quotes About Virtue

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.