virtue Quotes

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.