Abigail Adams Quotes About Virtue

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  • Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

    "Character and the IRS" by Terry Newell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2013.
  • The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

  • These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

    Hero   Heart   Character  
  • May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

    Mind  
    Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.199
  • Great necessities call out great virtues.

    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780
  • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

    Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.253, UPNE
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Abigail Adams

  • Born: November 22, 1744
  • Died: October 28, 1818
  • Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States