Our Virtues Quotes
43 quotes by 37 authors
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even…
— Honore de Balzac
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad,…
— Annie Besant
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We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
— James Ellis
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
— Oscar Wilde
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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
— Victor Hugo
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves;…
— Ching Hai
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
— Holbrook Jackson
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Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time
— William Shakespeare
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection…
— George Eliot
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;…
— William Shakespeare
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We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;…
— John Vianney
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Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
— Karl Barth
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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