Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka
Modesty is not one of my virtues. — Alan King
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content,… — Charles Kingsley
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. — Klaus Kinski
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. — Sam Levenson
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about… — Walter Lippmann
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. — Walter Lippmann
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. — John Locke
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. — Clare Boothe Luce
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. — Don Marquis
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. — Andre Maurois
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. — Moliere
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. — Michel de Montaigne
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. — Thomas Moore
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite… — Dee Dee Myers
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. — Thomas Paine
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character… — Jean Paul
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. — Plutarch
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into… — J. B. Priestley

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