Virtue Quotes

"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected." "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents" "Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge" "That no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice moderation temperance frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles" "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave" "The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better" "To feel much for others and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature, and can alone give us that tranquility which is the natural and proper object of human desire" "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others" "Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God" "Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions but through uprightness and wisdom" "It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man" "Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it" "One can be a saint in an evil world, but it is quite difficult for an ordinary man to be honest in that way" "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues" "Character is much easier kept than recovered"