Quotes About The Cardinal Virtues

#1. Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#5. The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

#7. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

#8. The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. We could not learn love in the abstract any more than we could learn patience and the other cardinal virtues. Just as we cannot know the "fellowship of his sufferings" without suffering, we also come to know real fellowship with our fellowmen only by serving them.

Neal A. Maxwell

#10. Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

James Hillman

#11. The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

Laozi

#12. Steady," Peter said, not losing a step. "Have to keep steady or all is lost.

Brom

#13. This is weird. There's a dead woman in front of me like dozens of other dead women I've seen. But this one is a queen, and a famous one. If it's possible to be starstruck by the dead, then I guess that's what's happening.

Kendare Blake

#14. Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

Ted Malloch

#15. of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built.

Peter Kreeft

#16. Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtues, not of vices.

Ayn Rand

#17. Fear, boredom, and resistance
they all go to make
what we call stupid children.

John Holt

#18. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Don Marquis

#19. [The five cardinal virtues of the Chinese are (1) humanity or benevolence; (2) uprightness of mind; (3) self-respect, self- control, or "proper feeling;" (4) wisdom; (5) sincerity or good faith.

Sun Tzu

#20. No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#21. I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams ... no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams

Jared Leto

#22. I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

Steven Spielberg

#23. It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

Marcus Aurelius

#24. Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

William Fleming

#25. I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

John Burns

#26. When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Meat Loaf

#27. A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." Genesis 2:24

William Batson

#28. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

#29. There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Robert Plant

#30. Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.

Leslie Vernick