Character Quote by Joseph Hall

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

— David Halberstam

You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have…

— George W. Dunaway

I think many of the virtues and values of the army are very similar to the virtues and values of socialism, of the Labour…

— Clive Lewis

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

— John Locke

“The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and humanity are…

— David Hume

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

— Nancy Gibbs

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

— Allen W. Wood

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or…

— R. H. Tawney