Quotes about Virtue
baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It
— Aristotle
Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
— Roy Bennett
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
— John Milton
Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.
— John Milton
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, that would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
— John Milton
Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
— John Milton
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
— John Milton
Virtue could see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where, with her best nurse contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.
— John Milton
Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
So absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own, that what she wills to do or say, seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
— John Milton
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
— John Milton
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.
— John Piper