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

Virtues

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

Accountability: The quality or state of being accountable; especially an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions.

Ambition: Having a strong desire for success or achievement.

Assertiveness: Disposed to or characterized by bold or confident assertion.

Beauty: The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. Aesthetic harmony.

Benevolence: The disposition to do good.

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

Caring: To give care. A concern for...

Charity: Generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering. Aid given to those in need.

Chasity: Purity in conduct and intention.

Caution: Avoidance of rashness, attention to safety.

Cleanliness: Careful to keep clean: fastidious, habitually kept clean.

Commitment: The firm carrying out of purpose.

Compassion: Sympathetic awareness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate lt.

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

Consideration: Thoughtful and sympathetic regard for the needs of others. Careful thought.

Contentment: The quality of feeling satisfied with one's possessions, status, or situation.

Cooperation: To associate with another or others for mutual benefit/to achieve a shared goal.

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

Courtesy: Polite, respectful or considerate behavior mindful of other people.

Creativity: The ability to create. A quality involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts.

Curiosity: A desire to find out and know things.

Defiance: Bold resistance.

Dependability: Reliable, worthy of reliance or trust.

Detachment: Freedom from attachments.

Determination: Firmness of purpose.

Devotion: A great love or loyalty, enthusiastic zeal.

Diligence: Conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation. Persevering determination to perform a task.

Discernment: The ability to distinguish; judgement; Discrimination; To distinguish between things; To perceive differences that exist.

Discretion: Being discrete in one’s speech, keeping secrets.

Discipline: The trait of being well behaved and under control.

Eloquence: Powerful and effective language. Fluent, persuasive and articulate speech.

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

Enthusiasm: A feeling of excitement. Exuberance: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval.

Excellence: The quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree.

Faith: Complete confidence in a person, plan or set of beliefs etc.

Faithfulness: Steadfast in affection or allegiance; loyal.

Flexibility: Adaptable, able to be changed to suit circumstances.

Focus: Concentrated awareness and effort.

Forbearance: Restraint under provocation; patience: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.

Forgiveness: To cease to feel angry or bitter towards a person or about an offense.

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

Friendliness: Agreeableness is a tendency to be pleasant and accommodating.

Frugality: Prudence in avoiding waste. Being economical with resources.

Generosity: Giving or ready to give freely, free from meanness or prejudice.

Gentleness: Moderate; mild, quite; not rough or severe.

Grace: Elegance and beauty of movement or expression.

Gratitude: Being thankful.

Helpfulness: The quality of providing useful assistance.

Honesty: Truthful; sincere; not lying or cheating.

Honor: Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent. Worthy of being honored.

Hope: The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.

Humbleness: Modest; not arrogant or boastful.

Humility: A disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride.

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

Idealism: High mindedness: elevated ideals and conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued.

Integrity: Moral soundness; Integrity is consistency of values and actions. Unbroken completeness with nothing lacking.

Impartiality: Fair. An inclination to weigh both views and opinions equally without bias.

Industry: Diligent, hardworking.

Innocence: Guileless, not guilty.

Joyfulness: The emotion of great happiness

Justice: Fair, impartial, giving a deserved response.

Kindness: Friendly, helpful, well meaning.

Knowledge: Part of the hierarchy made up of data, information and knowledge . Data are raw facts. Information is data with context and perspective. Knowledge is information with guidance for action based upon insight and experience.

Liberality: An inclination to favor progress and individual freedom the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament.

Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

Loyalty: Steadfast in allegiance to one's homeland, government, or sovereign, Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.

Magnanimity: The virtue of being great of mind and heart. It encompasses, usually, a refusal to be petty, a willingness to face danger, and actions for noble purposes.

Majesty: Great and impressive dignity.

Meekness: The feeling of patient, submissive humbleness; a disposition to be patient and long suffering.

Mercy: Clemency: leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice.

Moderation: The avoidance of extremes in one's actions or opinions.

Modesty: Freedom from vanity or conceit. Not inclined to boast.

Obedience: Willingness to obey, to be controlled when necessary, to carry out orders.

Openness: Ready and willing to talk candidly. Not secretive.

Orderliness: Neatness and tidiness. A personality trait which involves the organization of things into a state of order and symmetry. The quality of appreciating method and system.

Patience: The ability to endure delay, trouble, pain or hardship.

Peace: Freedom from mental agitation; serenity.

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

Persistence: Never-ceasing, relentless.

Piety: Humble devotion to a high ideal.

Prudence: Wise or careful in conduct. Shrewd or thrifty in planning ahead.

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

Purity: Freedom from defilement. Undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material. Unsullied by sin or moral wrong.

Purposefulness: Having a definite goal.

Reliability: Can be trusted to do something.

Resoluteness: The quality of being firm in purpose.

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

Respect: Admiration for others. Treating people with due dignity.

Responsibility: Having control over and accountability for appropriate events.

Restraint: Holding Back.

Reverence: Profound awe and respect.

Righteousness: Adhering to moral principles, Holiness.

Selflessness: The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

Self-Sacrifice: The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others.

Service: Work done by one person or group that benefits another.

Sensitivity: Heightened awareness of oneself and others within the context of social and personal relationships.

Silence: Inner peace. Being silent.

Simplicity: Straightforward; not complex or complicated. Unpretentious.

Sincerity: Free from pretense or deceit in manner or actions.

Sobriety: Serious, solemn and calm. Free from intoxication.

Spontaneity: Natural, not planned.

Steadfastness: Firm, resolute; determinedly unwavering.

Strength: Capable of exerting great force.

Tact: Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense.

Temperance: Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression. Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors/intoxicants.

Thankfulness: Warm friendly feelings of gratitude.

Thrift: The characteristic of using a minimum of something. Saving.

Tolerance: Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something; tending to withstand or survive.

Toughness: Strong and durable; not easily damaged.

Tranquility: Serenely quite and peaceful; undisturbed.

Trust: Having confidence in others; lacking suspicion.

Trustworthiness: Able to be trusted or depended on; reliable.

Truthfulness: Accurately depicting what is real.

Understanding: Comprehension, assimilation of knowledge. The holistic awareness of facts.

Unity: Freedom from division. Oneness.

Vitality: Exuberant physical strength or mental vigor, energy.

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

Wonder: The feeling aroused by something strange and surprising.

Zeal: Ardor. A feeling of strong eagerness. Tireless devotion.

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