Virtues Quotes

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

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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.

We are more tied to our faults than to our 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.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.