Top 100 Quotes About Virtues
#1. Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
John C. Bogle
#3. The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility and the striving towards God are the fundamental virtues of a Christian.
John Of Shanghai And San Francisco
#4. Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
#5. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.
Marie De Gournay
#6. His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.
Albert Camus
#7. Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#8. The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and humanity are commonly neglected.
David Hume
#9. Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Rollo May
#10. In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
#12. Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
#13. Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prather
#14. Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
#15. For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Religion has taught us activities instead of virtues and principles.
Sunday Adelaja
#17. Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it wants your whole power, in wrath, hatred, and love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
B.C. Forbes
#19. Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
Jeremy Collier
#20. It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#21. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms
#23. we must by every means implant in the field of our heart the seeds of the virtues, faith, hope in God, and love for God and our neighbour,
John Of Kronstadt
#24. Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.
Elizabeth George
#26. Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
Paul Di Filippo
#27. No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
George Sand
#29. The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.
Joseph Addison
#30. There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.
Ammianus Marcellinus
#31. Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot
#33. VIRTUES ARE THE PRECIOUS VESSELS WORTHY OF THE WORLD'S REVERENCE, AND THE BEST WORD FOR VIRTUES IS LOVE.
Frances Angelina
#34. To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope
#36. Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Horace Mann
#37. If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
Sunday Adelaja
#39. Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.
Mark Dever
#40. Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Anton Chekhov
#41. My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#42. That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.
Brother Lawrence
#43. We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man's triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.
Bill Hopkins
#44. Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
G.K. Chesterton
#45. But every period has its virtues, even a time of turmoil. . . . When
Amor Towles
#46. One of the virtues of the NHS ... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.
Clive James
#47. There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
Norm MacDonald
#48. Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole Kidman
#49. Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
Augustine Of Hippo
#50. I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.
August Wilson
#51. Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
Sun Tzu
#52. Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
Ezra Taft Benson
#53. People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
Edith Sitwell
#54. 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
#55. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
#56. In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
#58. In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#59. Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
Pythagoras
#60. Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
George Mikes
#61. Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
#62. You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple rustic gown
With a beauty more than queenly.
Though only one for you shall care,
One only speak your praises;
And you never wear in your shining hair,
A richer flower than daisies.
Phoebe Cary
#63. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
Dalai Lama
#64. When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
George Lillo
#67. None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.
Aristotle.
#68. POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames
#70. Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
#71. It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.
Maimonides
#72. You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you
take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a
single hour.
Robert Musil
#73. One of the most effective ways for a system of authority to tout its virtues is not to speak of them directly, but to create a particularly vivid image of their absolute negation - of what it claims life would be like in the total absence of, say, patriarchal authority, or capitalism, or the state.
David Graeber
#75. Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.
Iris Murdoch
#76. Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#77. When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#78. The Gods rank work above virtues.
Hesiod
#80. But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
Josh Billings
#81. If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
Austin O'Malley
#82. Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#83. Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
Richard Carlson
#84. One does not have to forgive if forgiveness is not one of his virtues. But one can forget and never come back to the issue.
Boris Zubry
#85. Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and ... virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].
Steve Fossett
#86. Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.
Mona Charen
#87. Following Locke's doctrine that the mind is a tabula rasa, Helvetius considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction.
Bertrand Russell
#88. The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.
Kylie Bisutti
#89. Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
George Will
#90. The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
#91. I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
#92. Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#93. The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
William Of Auxerre
#94. patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.
Joe Abercrombie
#95. I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
George Sand
#96. Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.
Doreen Virtue
#97. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
William Shakespeare
#98. They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.
Veronica Roth
#99. Love changes, aye, in the manner of growing to encompass as much of its subject as possible. Virtues, flaws, limitations, everything - love will fondle them all, with child-like fascination.' She
Steven Erikson
#100. What is it with these prophets? Almost without exception ordinary men, some of them with more vices than virtues, suddenly they were touched with fire.
Is it that a man sees best the stars when he is prone?
Little Pigeon
