Virtue

Websters 1828 dictionary:

 Strength; Bravery valor. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. In this sense, virtue may be, and in many instances must be, distinguished from religion.

LDS.ORG:

Virtue is a prerequisite to entering the Lord’s holy temples and to receiving the Spirit’s guidance. Virtue “is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards.”  It encompasses chastity and moral purity. Virtue begins in the heart and in the mind. It is nurtured in the home. It is the accumulation of thousands of small decisions and actions. Virtue is a word we don’t hear often in today’s society, but the Latin root word virtus means strength. Virtuous women and men possess a quiet dignity and inner strength. They are confident because they are worthy to receive and be guided by the Holy Ghost.

Quotes:

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

-Buddha

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

-Confucius

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

-C. S. Lewis

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

-George Washington

“You be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. There is no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience, your own moral cleanliness—and what a glorious feeling it is to know that you stand in your appointed place clean and with the confidence that you are worthy to do so”
-Thomas S Monson

Scriptures:

 2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

D&C 4:6 Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence. 

Mark 5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 

D&C 38:24 And let every man esteem his brother as himself, and practise virtue and holiness before me. 

D&C 88:40
For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue.

Words:

Advantage
Character
Excellence
Faith 
Generosity
Goodness
Ideal 
Kindness 
Love 
Merit 
Morality 
Purity 
Quality 
Rectitude 
Righteousness 
Value 
Asset 
Charity 
Chastity 
Faithfulness 
Hope 
Temperance 
Trustworthiness
Uprightness 
Worth 
Worthiness 

My Thoughts:

In young womens the first counselor in the stake came and talked to us about virtue and why they added it to the young womens values. He told us that as young women we need to have virtue-it is good and natural for us to be virtuous. He said that when we are married in the temple our virtue will help our husbands and their priesthood will help us and we will balance out each other. I thought that was really cool. :)

Virtue is moral goodness, kindness, and worthiness. It is an action of divinity and strength. It is standing up in righteous places and standing against evil forces. I want virtue.