Quotes About Virtues

Humility and obedience are two painfully misunderstood virtues that are really the arts of listening. Humility involves the refusal to coerce, the rejection of all attempts to control others.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,' she told him, 'and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Learn your own faults and vices; but do not assume that all of them should be eradicated. Sometimes, like beasts serving a greater master, they provide necessary balance and thus deserve indulgence; sometimes they are the indivisible shadows of virtues themselves.

Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.

Galatians 5:23 Gentleness, self-control.

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

While he values ethics he understands that apart from God moral principles are simply changing conventions and today's vices can become tomorrow's virtues.

The mole is a creature that I admire," Gödel said, before listing several of its most salient virtues, ranging from industry to persistence. "And it does not call attention to itself or its work. It works in secret. That, too, is to be admired.

Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and vices? You do not come to an end with your life, and the dead will besiege you terribly to live your unlived life. Everything must be fulfilled. Time is of the essence, so why do you want to pile up the lived, and let the unlived rot? -C.G. Jung, from Liber Novus

industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage.

La señora Greenaway me enseñó que todo ser humano nace con algún tipo de talento. Me explicó que a cada persona se le puede dar muy bien una cosa y que nacemos con puntos fuertes particulares, capacidades extraordinarias y virtudes muy dignas. Me dijo que si recordaba esto, trabajaba muy duro y era fiel a mí mismo, me pasarían cosas

Belief in the virtues of work and of simple living did accompany the rise of capitalism, but this was centuries before Martin Luther was born.

Regardless of how earnestly bankers trumpeted the virtues of laissez-faire, in times of unrest markets looked to Washington to provide stability.

a free economy is an economy run by free beings. And free beings are responsible beings. Economic transactions in a regime of private property depend not only on distinguishing mine from yours, but also on relating me to you. Without accountability, nobody is to be trusted, and without trust the virtues that are attributed to the free economy would not arise. Every

accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. To think that there is a merely accidental connection between those virtues and our Judaeo-Christian heritage is to live in cloud cuckoo land. It is to overlook the culture that has focused, down the centuries, on the business of repentance.

Democracies have a natural tendency to turn against their saviours. It happened to Winston Churchill. It happened to Charles de Gaulle and it happened to Margaret Thatcher. It was not the faults of those great leaders that caused their downfall, but their virtues

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve-Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues ... 20

we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

I am a heretic in this matter just as the philosopher Plato was and as Saint-Exupéry, the aviator, is. Plato places courage in the lowest order among the virtues.

Dreiser's literary faults, it gives us to understand, are essentially social and political virtues.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.