Virtues Quotes

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.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

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

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

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.

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.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

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

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

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.

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.