Definition of Virtue: Excellence in morals; A good habit; a character trait or quality valued as being good.

Virtues

Accountability: The quality of being trustworthy and capable of completing an obligation. A willingness to accept responsibility for one's actions.

Beauty: The quality of one’s soul or character.

Benevolence: The disposition to do good for others.

Caring: Showing a genuine concern for others and their feelings.

Charity: Helpfulness toward the needy and suffering. Offering our time and possessions.

Chastity: Purity in conduct, dress, and actions.

Compassion: Sympathetic awareness or caring for others, with a desire to give comfort.

Consideration: Thoughtful and sympathetic regard for others and their needs.

Contentment: Being and feeling satisfied with one's possessions, status, and/or situation.

Detachment: Freedom from anything that replaces God.

Devotion: Love, loyalty, or enthusiastic zeal for anything or anyone. Giving adoration to God.

Discernment: The ability to render good judgement in making choices.

Dependable: Reliable, worthy of reliance or trust.

Discretion: The quality to be judicious in one’s speech. Deciphers how to best put things.

Empathy: Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.

Faith: Confident in belief, in truth and trustworthiness of things not seen.

Forbearance: Tolerance and restraint under provocation. Patience in difficult circumstances or delays.

Forgiveness: The ability to excuse an offense towards a person.

Fortitude: Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage.

Grace: The gift of God, freely given, which encourages people to do good and reveals God’s presence.

Gratitude: Being thankful to God and others for all that is given to you.

Humble: Aware of one’s shortcomings, modest.

Humility: The realization that we all make up the body of Christ, and everything gained or given is a gift from God. A lack of pride.

Idealism: Elevated beliefs and conduct. Envisioning things in perfect form. Pursuit of one’s beliefs comes before anything else worth pursuing.

Joyfulness: An emotion of great happiness that comes from within.

Hope: To entertain a wish for something with some expectations that the desire will be fulfilled. Heaven.

Integrity: Trustworthiness, moral soundness of values and actions.

Impartiality: Fairness, an inclination to weigh both views and opinions equally without bias.

Innocent: The quality of being uncorrupted by the world. Sinless, pure

Insightful: Perceptive and discerning, wise.

Justice: Moral, rightness, fairness, in giving an impartial response based on facts.

Kindness: Being of a friendly, helpful, charitable, and gracious nature.

Persistence: Never-ceasing, relentless

Perseverance: Being persistent. Refusing to stop despite failures, delays, and difficulties.

Responsible: Being in control and accountable for one's actions.

Restraint: Holding back, not responding without rethinking.

Reverence: Exhibits profound awe and respect.

Righteousness: Adhering to moral principles and holiness, exhibits virtues.

Selflessness: Giving up what one could have, or has, for the benefit of others.

Self-sacrifice: Giving up one's resources or even one's life for others.

Sincerity: Heart felt, free from pretense or deceit.

Tranquil: Serenely quiet and peaceful; not easily disturbed.

Trusting: Having confidence in others; lacking suspicion.

Trustworthy: The quality of being believed, reliable, trusted. and depended upon.  

Unifying: Ability to bring different factions together. To be free from division.

Wisdom: The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight.

Zealous: Devout, fervent, passionate, or putting forth intense effort.

Intellectual and Practical Virtues

Acceptance: To consider circumstances, especially those that cannot be changed, as satisfactory.

Ambition: Having a strong desire for success or achievement.

Assertiveness: The quality characterized by being bold with confidence.

Bravery: A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear.

Cautiousness: Avoidance of rashness, attention to safety.

Cleanliness: The effort to keep things and oneself clean.

Commitment: The firm carrying out of purpose.

Confidence: A positive feeling of one's capabilities, or reliance on one's circumstances. Faith in oneself.

Cooperation: To comply with another or others for mutual benefit. To achieve a shared goal.

Courage: The quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear.

Courtesy: Being polite, respectful, and considerate.

Creativity: The ability to see or arrange existing concepts, ideas and things into something new and different.

Curiosity: The desire to find out and know more about things.

Diligence: Conscientiousness, paying attention to a task; persevering and being thorough.

Determination: Firmness of purpose.

Disciplined: Being in control of oneself. Well behaved.

Eloquence: Powerful and effective language, characterized by fluent, persuasive and articulate speech.

Flexibility: Being adaptable, and able to change to suit various circumstances.

Enthusiasm: Exhibiting a feeling of excitement and exuberance or overflowing with enjoyment or approval.

Excellence: Demonstrating the quality to excel to a high degree.

Focused: Concentrates on the task at hand., not easily distracted.

Friendliness: Showing an openness to acceptance in all circumstances. A tendency to be pleasant and accommodating.

Frugality: Prudence in avoiding waste and being economical with resources.

Gentleness: The quality which makes a person approachable, mild, and kind.

Humor: The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing or comical.

Loyalty: Demonstrating allegiance to one's beliefs, ideals, causes, duties or people.

Obedience: Having the willingness to follow demands or requests from those in authority. To have self-discipline, and fortitude to carry out orders.

Openness: Being ready and willing to talk candidly, without secrecy.

Punctuality: The quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time.

Reliable: The quality which renders one trustworthy.

Resourcefulness: The ability to act effectively or imaginatively when in difficult situations and unusual problems.

Respectful: The quality which treats people with dignity who have opposing ideas, or circumstances. Consideration for those with authority.

Simplicity: Unpretentious, straightforward, uncomplicated.

Strength: Capable of exerting great physical or intellectual force.

Sensitive: Being overly concerned with personal feelings within the context of social and personal relationships.

Steadfast: Firm, resolute, determined, unwavering, strong.

Tactful: Being considerate and choosing correct word choices to avoid offense.

Thankfulness: An attitude of gratitude.

Thrifty: The characteristic of using a minimum of something, saving.

Tolerance: The ability to accept or withstand something in behavior or pain, which you do not like, but cannot change.

Tough: Strong.

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