Virtues Quotes

890 Virtues quotes by 560 unique authors

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. — Veronica Roth
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning. — Winston Churchill
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house… — John Steinbeck
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours… — Thomas Hardy
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
no one ever gossips about the virtues of others — Bertrand Russell
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — J M Coetzee
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for… — David Gemmell
When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable. — Judith Martin
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that.… — Veronica Roth
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for… — Robert Musil
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape.… — Richard Carlson
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time… — Gregory Maguire
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. — Madeleine L'Engle
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other… — Christopher Hitchens
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. — Khalil Gibran
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does… — Erich Fromm

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