Quotes About Virtues

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Que yo me sienta, todavía hoy, ingenuo e inmaduro (es decir, con sólo los defectos de la juventud y casi ninguna de sus virtudes) no significa que tenga el derecho de exhibir esa ingenuidad y esa inmadurez

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

In his brilliant book The Road to Character, David Brooks makes a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are the skills you need to make a living, and those are often the most celebrated virtues in our culture. But when it comes to making a life, eulogy virtues win the day. These are the virtues that get talked about at your funeral.

Whatever our virtues and prejudices as white individuals, this structural racism works as an often elusive but constantly evolving and lethal social system. Structural

Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions through the ages, which attempted to define subjugation as the most transcendent state of man.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

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.

Patience with family is love, Patience with others is respect. Patience with self is confidence and Patience with GOD is faith.

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us, and the greatest is love.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Therefore neither discipline nor other virtues which can be invented by the will, nor works taken upon oneself, no matter how difficult, merit forgiveness of sins or reconcile us with God, but only faith in the Son of God.

The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.

A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: 1. Teach systematically 2. Have a ready wit 3. Be eloquent 4. Have a good voice 5. Have a good memory 6. Know when to make an end 7. Be sure of his doctrine 8. Venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the Word 9. Suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

The evil enemy will then begin to accuse them, and bring forward everything that he can against them. But the guardian Angel will defend his client, he will produce all his good works, his penances, his virtues, and lay them in the scales of Divine justice.

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

God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues.

Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.