Quotes about Virtue
Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.
— Dennis Prager
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
— Robert Frost
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
— George W. Bush
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
— Francois Rabelais
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
— Thomas a Kempis
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
— Henry Rollins
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you lead the wise, walk behind them.When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them.When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
— Confucius
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
— John Knox