Virtues Quotes · Page 10

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

— James Ellis

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

— Honore de Balzac

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

— William Ellery Channing

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

— John Locke

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

— Simone Weil

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

— Lee Min-ho

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

— George Will

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our…

— James E. Faust

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

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

— Howard Jacobson

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he…

— Owen Feltham

The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest…

— Bhartrhari

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

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident…

— William Shakespeare

“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited,…

— C.S. Lewis

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand…

— John Steinbeck

“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits…

— Abigail Adams

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue…

— Maya Angelou

I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a…

— Teresa of Avila

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

— Aristotle

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

— Eliza Haywood

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go…

— Susannah Cahalan

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

— Pope Francis

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

— Benjamin Franklin

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

— Oswald Chambers

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

— I. F. Stone

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

— Abdu'l-Bahá

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

— Rene Descartes

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

— Andre Maurois

“Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.”

— Anonymous

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.”

— Bryant McGill

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson