Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

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
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capitalismâ€™s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of… — Raghuram Rajan
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure… — Charles S. Maier
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of… — Bonnie D. Parkin
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting… — Elias Lyman Magoon
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their… — Elias Lyman Magoon
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed-… — Susan Griffin
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those… — B. C. Forbes

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