Virtue Quotes

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Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage… — Thomas S. Monson
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with… — Thomas S. Monson
I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. — John Henry Newman
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the… — Christine de Pizan
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the… — Unknown Author
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral… — Martin Seligman
Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance. — Nick Tosches
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can… — Maya Angelou
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over… — Hannah More
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who… — Ann Radcliffe
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. — Eric Zorn
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. — Natalie Clifford Barney
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his… — C.S. Lewis
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is… — Paul Jacob
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of Christian charity; such… — St. Vincent

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