Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls… — Maximus the Confessor
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly… — Allison Pearson
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life… — Theodore L. Cuyler
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard… — Al Davis
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders… — Algernon Sidney
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the… — Ignatius Loyola
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know… — Henry Suso
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits… — Jerry Bridges
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. — Peter Dinklage
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. — William A. Dembski
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. — Ambrose Bierce
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins. — J C Ryle
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous… — Jon Meacham
When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money. — Abraham Lincoln
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard de Mandeville
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and… — John Galt
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal… — John Galt
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal… — Benjamin Rush
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. — B. Carroll Reece
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real… — Charles Caleb Colton
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their… — Charles Caleb Colton
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond… — Thomas Lickona

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