Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of… — Abigail Adams
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it… — Meister Eckhart
I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not,… — Lord Byron
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden… — Orhan Pamuk
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way… — Aristotle
His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything. — Albert Camus
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are… — Winston Churchill
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think)… — C.S. Lewis
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. — John Locke
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you… — Haruki Murakami
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from… — Ayn Rand
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome… — Marcus Aurelius
Idleness breeds our better virtues. — William Faulkner
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who… — Anna Quindlen
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults,… — Eleanor Porter
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take… — Alberto Manguel
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants. — Oswald Chambers
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of… — Lord Byron
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. — Samuel Johnson
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The… — Thomas Jefferson

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