Virtues Quotes

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

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?

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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

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.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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.

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.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

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.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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.