Acquire Quote by Honore de Balzac

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be…

— Marcel Proust

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to…

— Aristotle

“The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,.…

— Aristotle

In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free…

— Robert Morneau

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

— Daniel Schacter

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To…

— Buddha

“When we are Enlightened, or when Universal Spirit awakens within us, we open the inexhaustible store of virtues and excellencies, and can freely make…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we…

— Iris Murdoch

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and…

— Aristotle

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.

— Ted Malloch