Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes… — Jonathan Sacks
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The… — Edward Dahlberg
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of… — John Jewel
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by… — William Hazlitt
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round… — Teresa of Avila
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. — Bernard of Clairvaux
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity… — Unknown Author
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by… — Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from… — David Hume
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues. — Thomas Aquinas
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection… — George Eliot
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
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

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