Quotes About Virtue

Proverbs 31:30 that counsels, "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Physical beauty will fade over time, but true beauty (virtue) is timeless.

People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.

Love isn't just worth remembering and saving. True love is what saves us all.

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

No hacen falta muchas razones para mostrar que la vida buena tiene más valor que la buena vida

Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.