Virtues Quotes
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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
Plato
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... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
Francis Bacon
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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
Aristotle
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In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
George Bernard Shaw
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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Abraham Lincoln
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Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
Edmund Morris
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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
Aristotle
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Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Martin Luther
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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers--
If these magnific titles yet remain
Not merely titular.
John Milton
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere
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The Hanlin named his granddaughter Lustrous Jade, for jade was the fairest of stones and possessed five virtues: charity, for its lustre; rectitude, for its translucence; wisdom, for its purity of sound when struck; equity, for its sharp edges that injure none; courage, for it can be broken but not bent.
Bette Lord
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What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
Bernard Bailyn
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole Kidman
