Virtues Quotes

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Let someone else acknowledge your virtues.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Our people were taken back to a culture of dependence. Our unity was destroyed, as tribalism was entrenched. The virtues of hard work were displaced, as national coffers were opened wide for looters.

Let's be clear: I do not advocate the virtues of a new African diplomatic model and do not pretend to be its theoretician.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.

Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.

The virtues of donations are great because it helps the needy and at the same time it gives an opportunity to the donor to give the surplus to the people in need. It helps the needy to sustain himself. .

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies.

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

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.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.