Virtues Quotes

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Courage, Important, Nothing

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Courage, Point, Simply

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

Good, Found, Seen

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

Experience, Few, Vices

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

Admire, Dislike, Vices

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wish, Show, Loved

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, Whose, Plant

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.
Ayn Rand

Love, Character, Emotional

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

Greatest, Useful, Persons

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle

Beloved, Liberalism, Varieties

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

Men, Silence, Hear

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.
Aristotle

Nature, Moral, Against

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

Woman, Away, Her

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Life, Good, Men

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Women, Nothing

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.
Elizabeth Taylor

Pretty, Problem, Sure

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.
Saint Augustine

Humility, Soul, Cannot

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude, Greatest, Others

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley

Absence, Complete, Talents

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Highest, Vices, Passions

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

Matter, Force, Separate

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

Men, Through, Governed

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

Talent, Industry, Substitute

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

Lost, Sea, Rivers

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

Secret, Gossips

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

Yourself, Through, Others

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson

Courage, Greatest, May

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Great, Enemy

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.
Charles Kingsley

Work, Best, Strength

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