Virtues Quotes

890 quotes by 560 authors

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false. — George Mikes
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we… — Joseph Joubert
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions. — Michael Sandel
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and… — Madhur Bhandarkar
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues. — F. Sionil Jose
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths… — James E. Faust
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in… — Jakob Bohme
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the… — Robert Gottlieb
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. — Nancy Gibbs
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words)… — Jose Rizal
I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and… — August Wilson
I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of… — Ted Cruz
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other… — Max Heindel
If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under… — Max Heindel
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise… — Martin Seligman
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of… — Paul Di Filippo
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. — Juvenal
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall

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