Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things.… — Dorothy Day
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears. — Emilie Autumn
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. — William Faulkner
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part… — Erma Bombeck
But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone… — Wendell Berry
It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good to look upon… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were -… — Brennan Manning
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which… — Marguerite Yourcenar
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment… — John Fowles
For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf… — Anne Fortier
As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I… — Joan Didion
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on… — James Boswell
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… — C.S. Lewis
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. — Michael Crichton
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are… — Miguel de Cervantes
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues. — Therese of Lisieux
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues. — Mario Puzo
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency… — Ayn Rand
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when… — W. Somerset Maugham

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