Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man. — Kofi Annan
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when… — Rich Mullins
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap”… — Boyd K. Packer
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness. — Michel de Montaigne
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. — C.S. Lewis
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing… — Marcus Aurelius
Satan paints sin with virtues colors. — Thomas Brooks
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common… — Swami Vivekananda
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's… — Frank Miller
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. — Thomas S. Monson
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they… — John Cassian
If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden… — Ambrose
God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth… — John of Kronstadt
... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For this reason the… — Gregory Palamas
If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these… — John Cassian
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a… — Laozi
And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. — Karl Barth
Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues. — Ma Jaya
I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry… — Stephen Moyer
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting. — Stephen Prothero

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