Quotes About Virtues

No se pueden evitar los defectos de los hombres sin huir al mismo tiempo de sus virtudes. De ahí que la sensatez nos destruya.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

La fuerza, la inteligencia, la estupidez, la belleza, la cobardía, la debilidad son situaciones y papeles por los que, antes o después, pasamos todos nosotros. Quien abusa amparándose en la fatalidad de la vida o del propio carácter, una hora o un año después se verá atacado en nombre de las mismas inefables razones. Lo mismo sucede con los pueblos, con sus virtudes, sus caídas y sus apogeos.

But man had changed. He had lost the old knowledge and old skills. His mind had become a flaccid thing. He lived from one day to the next without any shining goal. But he still kept the old vices—the vices that had become virtues from his own viewpoint and raised him by his own bootstraps. He kept the unwavering belief that his was the only kind, the only life that mattered—the smug egoism that made him the self-appointed lord of all creation.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The belief in the innate virtues of constitutions is as baseless as was the belief in the natural superiorities of royal personages.

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessita , the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Una de las desgracias a las que se ven sometidas las grandes inteligencias es la de comprender por fuerza todas las cosas, tanto los vicios como las virtudes.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others -- existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things.

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

We all are brought up on some values, and I believe values define a man's character.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one. Some of us are pious, some of us are generous. Some few of us are honest, comparatively speaking; and some, fewer still, may possibly be truthful. But in vanity and kindred weaknesses we can all join hands.

Humanity will one day be defined, not by the gifts we possess but the virtues we lack.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Ignoring the vices of our friends and the virtues of our enemies sets us up for nasty surprises.

Pero entonces no habríamos podido construir. Nadie es capaz de hacerlo si antepone sus deseos. En nuestros diversos mundos, todos tenemos que esforzarnos en conseguir esas cosas tan difíciles como ser alegres, bondadosos, curiosos, valientes y pacientes, y tenemos que estudiar, pensar y trabajar duro, y entonces lograremos construir…

If you don't go crazy because of your husband's vices, you go crazy because of his virtues.

Micah 6:8--to do justice, love mercy and to walk humbly with God. I would suggest that there is no solution to our national crisis absent those three cardinal virtues.