Quotes About Virtue

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

Love built on just emotion, without knowledge and virtue, is a continual shipwreck.

Whoever pursues righteousness, and love, finds life prosperity and honor!

No matter how many times you've done wrong, just continue to be faithful, honest and loving. Sooner or later someone will appreciate you.

The most passionate people are rarely known for being virtuous; but the most virtuous people are always described as passionate.

Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.

Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue — not in others and certainly not in themselves.

One thing the Bible makes perfectly clear is that God absolutely hates pride and loves humility.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Integrity is an all-or-nothing virtue (like being half pregnant, there's no such thing as semi-integrity).

You can see how, over time, it would be easy for each of us to cross the line and begin to make a virtue of our flaws—simply because the flaws constitute what we think of as "me.

I have never met a man who wanted to be bad," writes George MacLeod. "The mystery of man is that he is bad when he wants to be good.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Patience is a virtue. Virtue is a grace. Put them all together and they make a happy face.

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?

Few of the Arabs could read, but beauty of speech was a virtue which all Arab parents desired for their children. A man's worth was largely assessed by his eloquence, and the crown of eloquence was poetry.

Hadist riwayat Abu Bakar menyatakan bahwa Nabi bersabda, "Allah mengangkat derajatmu bukan melalui banyaknya salat dan berpuasa, namun berdasarkan kebaikan hatimu.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

No great saint lived without errors.