Virtues Quotes · Page 16

“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

— Joseph Joubert

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

— Orson Scott Card

“it seemed to her that she had acquired not virtues but a form of dementia”

— Doris Lessing

“Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.”

— Nick Vujicic

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

— Confucius

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

— Norm MacDonald

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love…

— Douglas Bader

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the…

— Therese of Lisieux

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

— William Hazlitt

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then…

— Alec Guinness

“First are those which free us from the strongest passions: laziness, love of comfort, sensuality, and pride. These virtues—fortitude, detachment, chastity, and…

— Juan Luis Lorda

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have…

— Anonymous

In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people…

— John Mackey

If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness,…

— Max Heindel

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the…

— C. S. Lewis

“A true sister warrior is well trained and physically strong, but she is also dedicated to practicing the five godly virtues—obedience, service,…

— Emily R. King

Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the…

— Kim Jong-un

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in…

— Anonymous

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

— Thomas Aquinas

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

“His cheek bones were protruding and eyes were sunk. I waved at him but he stole the gaze.”

— Ranjani Ramachandran

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

— Klaus Kinski

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

— Leonard of Port Maurice

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

— Winston Churchill

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

— Eric Zorn

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

— Francis Bacon

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

— Edward Gibbon

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Service is an expression of inner growth and development, It is the muscle-building of virtues. It is the barometer of inner development…

— Master Del Pe

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

— Edward Abbey