Virtues Quotes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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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.
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
