Virtues Quotes

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Great necessities call out great virtues.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.