Quotes About Virtues

Nuestro gran error está en tratar de obtener de cada uno en particular las virtudes que no posee, descuidando cultivar aquellas que posee.

Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve, quizá porque entonces se espera que dejemos de manifestarlas.

O nosso grande erro, é querer encontrar em cada um, em especial, virtudes que ele não tem e desinteressarmo-nos de cultivar as que ele possui.

Practice kindness, and you start to become kind. Practice discipline, and you start to become disciplined. Practice forgiveness, and you start to become forgiving. Practice charity, and you start to become charitable. Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle.

He claimed that there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

los amigos siempre debían subestimar las virtudes de uno, mientras que los enemigos debían sobrevalorar los defectos.

friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.

I am somewhat allergic to explanations that divide men and women into frozen categories and attribute to each sex its characteristic virtues and shortcomings.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God.

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance," said Caroline.

Can it be so? Can I again enjoy my pure, free will, my own unfettered thoughts: and wake once more to life's delicious perils? Can it be so? And yet what ails me now, that I am restless as a captive bird, and feel myself a slave? Do I not love him fondly as heroine ever loved her hero? Truly I love him, know his virtues well, honour him above all men. He is one, on whose kind breast a woman's tenderness and timid love may safely lean for shelter.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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

Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

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

The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,. and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

So too then is it with the Virtues: for by acting in the various relations in which we are thrown with our fellow men, we come to be, some just, some unjust: and by acting in dangerous positions and being habituated to feel fear or confidence, we come to be, some brave, others cowards.

Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society

My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Nosotros, como todas las razas, tenemos nuestros santos y nuestros pecadores, nuestros cobardes y nuestros héroes.