Quotes About Virtues

She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.

We naturally see our virtues with clearer eyes than we see our defects.

Because it is not wise to trust one's self overmuch. We naturally see our virtues with clearer eyes than we see our defects. We are anxious to do what is right; not necessarily what seems right to us, but what is right, objectively, if such a thing as objective right exists.

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten. Se acostumbran desde temprano a considerar al compañero como un hijo bobalicón, a quien perdonan graves defectos, desde ebriedad hasta violencia doméstica, porque es hombre.

I think you'll see that my life story is worthy of a novel, because of my sins more than my virtues.

but his monumental pride prevented him from recognizing in the man any virtues beyond those that marked him as a good peon.

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.

There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

Forced idleness is far worse than forced labor. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control and strength of will and content and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know.

It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues. … A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, citing him: "It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.