Quotes About Virtues

Anne Trenchard was a practical woman, and one of her chief virtues was that she did not linger over a disaster but sought, almost immediately, to remedy what could be remedied and to accept what could not.

Maybe we're born with a full set of qualities, some fine, some not so fine, and none of us knows what will bring out everything that lives within us. And sometimes it's the fine qualities that cause us trouble, and the not so fine that save us.

His character is two-sided and, according to his training, his character qualities are either nurtured into virtues or allowed to degenerate into vices.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.