all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues. — Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni Copy Share Image
“I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues. — William Temple Sr Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues. — George Will Copy Share Image
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“The virtues of resourcefulness, self-composure, patience, hardiness, not to mention a sense of humour, were prized as highly as those of bravery,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Character Strengths and Virtues was an attempt to inaugurate a “science of good character.” — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
