Virtues Quotes

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

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

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

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

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

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

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.