“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law. — William of Auxerre Copy Share Image
His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful.… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“To ask a child who is unburdened with the rules of society Who knows no hate based on religion or color Who… — Misery Copy Share Image
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God;… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
“Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“[W]isdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage. In fact, you could… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to… — Joan Didion 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
“When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork… — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
“The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It’s no more than a fact and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image