Virtues Quotes

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

— Herman Melville

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

— Denis Diderot

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

— Edgar Cayce

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

— William Butler Yeats

One seldom loves people for their virtues.

— M. V. Heberden

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

— Lee Min-ho

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

— Simone Weil

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

— John Locke

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

— William Ellery Channing

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

— I. F. Stone

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

— Abdu'l-Bahá

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is…

— Bonnie D. Parkin

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in…

— Thomas Day

For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather…

— Anand Mahindra

“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.”

— Xenophon

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues…

— C. A. Bartol

“We are the collective creator of our own agony. It is time for a re-awakening of consciousness when we recognize the best…

— Laurence Overmire

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in…

— Thomas Lickona

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection…

— Luc de Clapiers

A visit to the Rennes market, one of the finest I have seen in France, alone will convince you of the virtues…

— Rachel Khoo

I am satisfied that our Party and youth league officials are devoting efforts to tending the garden of virtues with all sincerity…

— Kim Jong-un

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves…

— Stephen Covey

Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who…

— Thomas of Villanova

“You will live in a world of responsible beings, who will be as consistent and reliable as facts; the guarantee of their…

— Ayn Rand

“Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances…

— Isocrates

“If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be…

— Thomas à Kempis

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time…

— Anonymous

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…

— Carroll Quigley

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and…

— Steven Pressfield