Virtues Quotes

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no ...

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no mo...

. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive ...

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In wha...

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine...

Great necessities call out great virtues.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to...

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the o...

th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above...

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtue...

For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unsee...

«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,...

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

You were kind.”Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”Bergon shook his head. ...

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be ...

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a W...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

When I was a child, I thought,Casually, that solitudeNever needed to be sought.Something everybody h...

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

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.