Top 100 Quotes About Virtues
#1. The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
Laurence Sterne
#2. Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.
John Shearman
#3. [R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.
Martin E.P. Seligman
#4. The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#5. The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
Jack McDevitt
#6. There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
Margaret Atwood
#7. Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.
Flannery O'Connor
#8. Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.
James Vila Blake
#9. Now that you made me a knight again", he said lightly, "I'll have to keep my mind on certain knightly virtues like chastity."
Ciara could not remember that ever being a knightly virtue.
Shelly Thacker
#11. When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel
#12. Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes
Daniel Defoe
#13. My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.
Mary Shelley
#14. The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
William Shakespeare
#16. Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
#17. Great beauties and stunningly handsome men were accorded virtues: people found them funnier, smarter, more insightful than they actually were.
Brent Weeks
#18. They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice
Thornton Wilder
#19. Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving, and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get through life without abandoning, at least once.
M.K. Clinton
#20. Pride is the king of vices ... it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul ... other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.
Fulton J. Sheen
#21. Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
Aldous Huxley
#22. Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
Anthony Trollope
#23. Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Douglas William Jerrold
#24. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
Anthony Collins
#25. Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Honore De Balzac
#26. One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Francoise Sagan
#27. The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel
#28. A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
Ben Jonson
#29. No need to attack the faults of others
no need to flaunt your own virtues
act when you're acknowledged
retire when you're ignored
rich rewards mean great trials
deep words meet superficial minds
think about what you hear
children must see for themselves..
Han-shan
#30. The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert
#32. In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul.
Robert Morneau
#33. I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
Charles Caleb Colton
#36. Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
Charles Darwin
#37. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin.
Steven Erikson
#39. When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.
Charles Caleb Colton
#40. Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#41. 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
#42. People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#43. Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
#44. Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#45. Virtues are more powerful than the realities we see right now.
Sunday Adelaja
#46. Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
John Ruskin
#47. If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
Francis Quarles
#48. To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.
Samuel Johnson
#49. Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
Edgar Cayce
#50. So long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#51. Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut
#53. The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
Malcolm Forbes
#55. Ambrosio, learn to know me better. I love you for your virtues: Lose them, and with them you lose my affections. I look upon you as a Saint; Prove to me that you are no more than Man, and I quit you with disgust.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#56. Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
Stephen R. Prothero
#57. Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.
Bonnie D. Parkin
#58. Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
George Bernard Shaw
#59. Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.
Munia Khan
#61. Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#63. 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
#64. Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
#73. Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prather
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Religion has taught us activities instead of virtues and principles.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
Jeremy Collier
#80. 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
#81. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms
#83. 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
#84. 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
#86. 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
#87. No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
George Sand
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#93. VIRTUES ARE THE PRECIOUS VESSELS WORTHY OF THE WORLD'S REVERENCE, AND THE BEST WORD FOR VIRTUES IS LOVE.
Frances Angelina
#94. 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
#95. Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope
#96. Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Horace Mann
#97. If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. 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
#99. Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.
Mark Dever
#100. Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Anton Chekhov
