Virtues Quotes

890 quotes by 560 authors

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. — Francis John McConnell
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper… — Charles Dudley Warner
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity… — Noah Webster
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. — Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have… — Saint Augustine
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives. — James Ellis
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more… — John Stuart Mill
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. — William Wordsworth
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt
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
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
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
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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