Quotes about Virtue

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.