Virtues Quotes

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

Howard Jacobson

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

Buddha

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Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

Sargent Shriver

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Francis John McConnell

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Quintilian

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

C. S. Lewis

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

Martin Yan

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

Aristotle

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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Peter Dinklage

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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Giraldus Cambrensis

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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Saskya Pandita

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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

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Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

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

Thomas Moore

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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Satchel Paige

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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