Virtues Quotes

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.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

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.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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.

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.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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.