Virtues Quotes
890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors
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He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
— Chanakya
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The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy...Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market,…
— Jo Grimond
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Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal,…
— Ayn Rand
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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
— Napoleon Hill
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Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is…
— Jerry Bridges
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
— Maya Angelou
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Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the…
— Robert James Waller
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.
— Jethro Tull
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
— William of Auxerre
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our…
— Dalai Lama
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The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for.…
— Sargent Shriver
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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
— Maya Angelou
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Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
— Aristotle
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I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
— Nicole Kidman
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Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening…
— Nicole Kidman
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The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as…
— Swami Satchidananda
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