His Virtues Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
— Thornton Wilder
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True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his…
— Therese of Lisieux
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A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can…
— John of Salisbury
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A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
— Edward Abbey
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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s…
— Abraham Maslow
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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold…
— Ayn Rand
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they…
— Denis Diderot
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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
— Napoleon Hill
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Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
— Samuel Johnson
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in…
— Griffith John
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Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.
— John Donne
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General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United…
— Jim Talent
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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal…
— John Galt
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The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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