Quotes about Virtue
Character is what a man is in the dark.
- DL Moody
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Sterne
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
- Aristotle
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
- J. Oswald Sanders
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Patience is God's nature.
- Tertullian
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
- Charles Spurgeon
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
- Samuel Rutherford
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
- Thomas a Kempis
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
- George Washington
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
- Tertullian
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
- Thomas Monson