Virtues Quotes

890 quotes by 560 authors

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of… — Satchel Paige
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu
This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today,… — Thomas S. Monson
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do… — William Gilmore Simms
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… — Natalia Ginzburg
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences… — Honore de Balzac
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these… — Austin Phelps
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If… — Anthony Mary Claret
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been… — Adolf Hitler
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. — Edwin Way Teale

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