Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person,… — Ayn Rand
Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects. — Jenni Rivera
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. — Bertrand Russell
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this… — Marquis de Sade
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that,… — Jerry Saltz
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more… — Haile Selassie
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. — George Bernard Shaw
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. — Sargent Shriver
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never… — Casey Stengel
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. — Elizabeth Taylor
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. — Nikola Tesla
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. — Ethel Waters
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. — Rebecca West
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues… — E. O. Wilson
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of… — Geoff Mulgan
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's… — Hanna Rosin
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults — Mario Puzo

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