Virtues Quotes · Page 14

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

— Tavis Smiley

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

— Fernando Haddad

“...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...”

— John Geddes

Inspire virtues and, most importantly, strength and wisdom.

— Anonymous

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

— Franz Kafka

“Courtesy, is a constant repitition of reflecting established virtues.”

— Wayne Chirisa

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

— Maya Angelou

“Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin’d; And clap your…

— Anonymous

Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals.…

— Rodney Stark

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all…

— Martin Luther

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away…

— Joseph Addison

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

— Edgar Cayce

“Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see.…

— Sunday Adelaja

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

— Abigail Adams

...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor…

— John Cassian

The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable…

— George Gilder

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must…

— Joseph Addison

The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can…

— Marjorie Garber

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted…

— Mother Teresa

“Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the…

— A.W. Tozer

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also,…

— August Wilson

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

— Khalil Gibran

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

— Edmund Burke

“He studies virtues, vices, flaws and merits, the wisdom and puerility of others.”

— Stefan Zweig

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

— Kofi Annan

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

— Hugh Prather

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

— Benvenuto Cellini

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

— Thomas Moore

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

— Isaac Barrow

“Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit.”

— Arturo Graf

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche