Quotes About Virtue

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

If the root is holy, the branches shall be holy.

Character is what a man is in the dark

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

Patience is the key of content.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

There is no evil like hatred, and no fortitude like patience.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.

Practice humility and patience.

Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.

It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.