Quotes About Virtues

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Everyone needs something from their mother. It's the way it works. When he smiled, she said, What? No one ever disagrees with me. But you. Jane looked down at her own hands, her brows getting tight. Not one of my virtues, huh. Actually, it's a part of you I love most. When she glanced at him in surprise, he leaned in quick and kissed her on the mouth--even though he shouldn't have.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.

Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vicesAre fathered by our heroism. VirtuesAre forced upon us by our impudent crimes.These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.