If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
“Why, all his virtues are derived from his station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is powerful,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.” — Jack B Nicholson Copy Share Image
I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
One of the virtues of 'The X-Men' was that it managed to transcend the expectations and prejudices of the medium. It appealed… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Much better stay in company! To love you must have someone else, Giving requires a legatee, Good neighbours need whole parishfuls Of… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“Strive now to unite in yourself all the virtues of these different examples. Have the purity of virgins, the austerity of anchorites,… — Pierre Abélard Copy Share Image
“Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and… — Mark Miller Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
“If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“The notion of good and bad is only in people's minds for there is only virtue and excess. Happiness and wisdom are… — Insidious Nocturne Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
