Virtues Quotes

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

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

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.