Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;… — William Shakespeare
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that… — Joseph Addison
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them… — John Milton
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity… — Aristotle
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces;… — Unknown Author
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and… — William Blake
What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down. — Leonard of Port Maurice
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of… — Saint Francis de Sales
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself… — Saint Augustine
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer… — Walter Bagehot
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba
Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own… — Guru Angad
Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by… — Neal A. Maxwell
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower,… — John Stokes
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the… — Walter Russell Bowie
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all… — Richard M. Weaver
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;… — John Vianney
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives… — Gaston Bachelard
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint. — Henry Ward Beecher
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart. — Fritz Kreisler
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. — Jean de la Bruyere

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