Virtues Quotes

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.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

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.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

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.

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.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.

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

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!