Catholic Quote by Anton Chekhov

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Douglas Bader

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it…

— Joseph Addison

Great necessities call out great virtues.

— Abigail Adams

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris…

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Edmund Burke

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

— Benjamin Netanyahu