Virtues Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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