Top 23 Virtues And Defects Quotes
#1. Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.
Jenni Rivera
#2. I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.
Robin Sharma
#4. Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Honore De Balzac
#5. 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
#6. I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects
not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
Therese De Lisieux
#7. We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Joseph Joubert
#8. Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
Ed Markey
#9. In his day, liking someone like David Bowie would have been the domain of degenerate officers in black and white movies about nazis.
Jonathan Goldstein
#10. Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
#11. I married the perfect girl. I married the girl who could have done so much better and took me anyway. I married a woman who inspires me to be the best version of myself just by being her. I feel lucky every day to be the man next to you, Leigh. Nothing will ever change that.
Jolene Perry
#12. Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
Thomas Hardy
#13. In the human race, the frequency of the virtues that are identical in us all is not more wonderful than the multiplicity of the defects that are peculiar to each one of us. Undoubtedly, it is not common sense that is "the commonest thing in the world"; it is human kindness.
Marcel Proust
#15. The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Moliere
#16. People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
Haruki Murakami
#17. My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
Carrie Fisher
#18. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#19. When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.
Sourav Ganguly
#20. No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person's character.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Edgar Ramirez
#23. while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.
John Mark Reynolds
