Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. — Muriel Spark
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you… — Eddie Van Halen
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. — Martin Yan
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates… — Adam Weishaupt
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether… — Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily… — Benjamin Franklin
Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none. — John Donne
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different… — Alfred North Whitehead
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues. — Ezra Taft Benson
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. — Horace Mann
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most… — Thomas Perry
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United… — Jim Talent
When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been… — Maximus the Confessor
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple… — Maximus the Confessor
If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent… — Maximus the Confessor

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