Quotes about Virtue
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
— Oprah Winfrey
Principle is a passion for truth.
— William Hazlitt
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
— Stephen Covey
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
— Pope John Paul II
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
— Epictetus
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
— Epictetus
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
— John Milton
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
— Khalil Gibran
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
— William Hazlitt
Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II