Quotes about Virtue
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
- Thomas a Kempis
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
- Marcus Aurelius
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
- John Calvin
Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.
- Max Lucado
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
War with vices, but peace with individuals.
- St. Isidore of Seville
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
- Francis de Sales
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.
- Thomas Monson
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
- David O. McKay
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
- St. John Chrysostom
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
- Aristotle