Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either… — Charles Caleb Colton
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from… — Charles Caleb Colton
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His… — Ben Jonson
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to… — Anatole France
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than… — Charles Caleb Colton
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. — Confucius
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. — Mason Cooley
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. — Aleister Crowley
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. — Rene Descartes
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! — Charles Dickens
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born. — Nhat Hanh
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us… — Sydney J. Harris
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Thomas Hobbes
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. — Aldous Huxley
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. — Samuel Johnson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes… — Samuel Johnson
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. — Samuel Johnson

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