Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our… — Jerome K. Jerome
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories… — Aldous Huxley
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. — Mark Helprin
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to… — Edward Abbey
They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a… — Veronica Roth
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their… — Ernest Hemingway
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line… — Margaret Atwood
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it… — William Shakespeare
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that… — N. T. Wright
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born… — Baltasar Gracian
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. — Victor Hugo
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure.… — Ray Bradbury
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. — George Sand
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with… — Gretchen Rubin
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. — Russell Kirk
That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who… — Brother Lawrence
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one… — Donna Tartt
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — Orson Scott Card
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to… — Rollo May
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues… — Andre Gide
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it. — Flannery O'Connor

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