Inspirational Quotes on Virtue

“Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.”

“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

“Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.”

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

“True pleasure is the companion and associate of virtue.”

“Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed, so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.”

“If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humlilty.”

“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ”

“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ”

“Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement -- these are the martial virtues which must command success.”

“Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.”

“God's purpose in promising to reward with heavenly and eternal honors the faithful service of His saints is to win them from the pursuit of earthly riches and pleasures, to sustain them in the fires of persecution, and to encourage them in the exercise of Christian virtues.”

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.”

“If we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity.”

“Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.”

“Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”

“Virtue-even attempted virtue-brings light; indulgence brings fog.”

“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”

“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.”