Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in… — Vincent de Paul
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says;… — Vincent de Paul
God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps… — Vincent de Paul
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of… — Vincent de Paul
The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility… — William Bernard Ullathorne
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. — Victor Hugo
To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us.… — Swami Vivekananda
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the… — Marjorie Garber
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in… — Griffith John
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the… — Joseph Nye
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These… — Kenny Smith
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. — Pleasant Rowland
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain… — Israel Shenker
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .… — Henry David Thoreau
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. — Aristotle
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no… — Eleanor Duckworth
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. — Gary Zukav
We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than we have today.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to… — Stephen Mansfield
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts… — Moliere
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. — Michel de Montaigne
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a… — Eric Hoffer

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