Quotes About Virtues

The trumpet of his own virtues.

For several virtuesHave I lik'd several women.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

What a difference there is between human virtues as the product of human effort and Christian virtues as the product of the divine life and nature within us!

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

It has come to pass', she wrote, in lines that reverberate still, 'that the working class is used, so to speak, as the unit of the moral investigation, until we well nigh believe that this class is the chief repository of the vices and virtues of the nation'.

To be a fine human being, you have to be... Strong and gentle Proud and humble Enthusiastic and calm Fun and serious Bold and careful Self-aware, but not self-conscious Candid and discreet Discriminating and democratic Loyal (when it's called for) Generous, but not to a fault Self-loving, but not self-worshiping Sometimes aggressive but never violent Intellectual and instinctive Logical and musical.

He started low and remained there, sure that safety embraced felicity on a mattress of obscurity. He knew that vertical activity invited dazzling exposure, and that to seek is to be sucked. He recognized loneliness as the mother of virtues and sat in her lap whenever he could.

His life, or at least the latter part of it, was of epic significance. Yet he was far from perfect. He could tell lies to save his own skin as well as anyone. What marked him out was his faith, that trust in and obedience to God, which is counted to be the most fundamental characteristic of a good man in God's sight, the foundation of all other virtues and achievements.

faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.

true leader exhibited five essential characteristics: intelligence, commitment, integrity, courage, and resourcefulness.

Teaching has its virtues, but it is often bad for the teacher.

I have known enough of women to understand they are as duplicitous and vicious as men. If they are capable of being our equals in malice, why not in our better qualities as well? There are no masculine virtues, Veronica. And none sacred to women either. We are all of us just people, and most badly flawed ones at that.

Virtues untie the knots that life could sometimes bring our way and they glide us through easily.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

In the mind of western man, there is nearly always a tendency to overrate suffering. This tendency is inherited from Christianity and Romanticism. One has, for centuries, considered suffering to be an atonement, a purification, and a cause of uplift. Suffering may comprise such virtues but not necessarily so.