Virtues Quotes
890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
— Maya Angelou
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Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the…
— Robert James Waller
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.
— Jethro Tull
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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
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our…
— Dalai Lama
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The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for.…
— Sargent Shriver
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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
— Maya Angelou
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Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
— Aristotle
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I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
— Nicole Kidman
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Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening…
— Nicole Kidman
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The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as…
— Swami Satchidananda
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Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them…
— Doreen Virtue
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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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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are…
— Aristotle
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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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Endurance is the queen of all virtues.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
— Confucius
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Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
— Bhartrhari
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