Virtues Quotes · Page 11

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

— Joan D. Chittister

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

— Joseph Addison

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

— Edward Abbey

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

— B. Carroll Reece

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

— Jean de la Bruyere

German virtues are now about technically good players playing attacking football.

— Joachim Low

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

— Larry Hurtado

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is…

— Kedar Joshi

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must…

— Swami Vivekananda

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for…

— Casey Stengel

“Sincerity is the first of the virtues. The lie is the weapon of the weak. Respect for truth is the virtue of…

— Will Jelbert

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

— Paul Kurtz

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent…

— Anonymous

The ideals of China's Communist government run completely contrary to the virtues we hold dear. They cannot be allowed to permeate our…

— Michael Waltz

“Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.” Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.…

— Ann Leckie

“But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving…

— John Owen

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever…

— Samuel Butler

“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh.…

— Hilary Mantel

I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not…

— Tyler Cowen

“The book of Judges shows us that the Bible is not a “Book of Virtues”; it is not full of inspirational stories.…

— Timothy J. Keller

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.”

— Anonymous

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

— Anonymous

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

— Anonymous

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

— William Fleming

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

— Andre Gide

“knock on the door of scripture with the hands of the virtues.”

— Evagrius Ponticus

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

— Rebecca West

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

— Edith Sitwell

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice. “Through”

— Gena Showalter

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

— Muriel Spark

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

— Judith Martin