Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. — Joseph Addison
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free… — Emma Goldman
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… — Ayn Rand
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid… — Learned Hand
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. — Steven Pressfield
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the… — Fidel Castro
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they… — Denis Diderot
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding… — Alan Greenspan
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. — Daniel Barenboim
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and… — Simon Bolivar
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. — John Keegan
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who… — Erma Bombeck
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds… — Plotinus
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses… — Benjamin Graham
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance,… — Orville Dewey
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it… — Jack Valenti
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. — June Jordan

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