Virtues Quotes

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. James E. Faust
Happiness Love Faith Prayer Heart Grateful Courage Contentment Beginning Humility Virtues Development Well-Being Greatness Expression Foundation
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thankful Gratitude Others Virtues Parent Only Greatest
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis
Courage Every Virtue Virtues Point Simply Testing Form
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. Confucius
Humility Virtues Solid Solid Foundation Foundation
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plant Weed Virtues Never Been Discovered Whose
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou
You Courage Important Practice Nothing Other Virtue Virtues Consistently Most Because Without Any The Most Important
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla
Man Matter Our Virtues Inseparable More Failings Like Force Separate
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust. Raja Krishnamoorthi
Kindness Integrity Trust Honesty Compassion Thrive Decency Other Virtues Norm
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Saint Augustine
Soul Other Humility Virtue Virtues Except Mere Does Exist Any Cannot Which Appearance Hence Foundation
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
Man Blame Own Virtues Thoroughly Characteristics Excellent Know Powers Praise
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle
Other Virtues Those Most Greatest Which Persons Useful
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli
Life Good Man Simple Sometimes Men Example First Wicked Imitate Virtues Good Men Strive One-Man Lead Him Return Principles Caused His Contrary Influence Republic Ashamed Good Example
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Napoleon Bonaparte
Men Virtues Easily More Through Governed Than Vices
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill
Virtues Admire He None Vices Dislike
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health. Abraham Maslow
Positive Health Man Science Achieve Negative Side Virtues Has-Been About More Revealed Been His Sins Than Psychological Psychology Shortcomings Little Far Us Much Successful Aspirations Illnesses
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. St. Jerome
Justice Other Others Virtues Pleases Pleasure Possesses Possessing Someone Give Instead Greater Does How Than May Them Ask Who Gratify
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. Haile Selassie
World Men Other Deficiencies Virtues Later Faults Possess Born More Area Talents Globe Attributes Geographical Than Any Human Africa African Created Less Earlier
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott
Wisdom Grace Mind Heroic Virtues Poetry Opens Makes Children Lends Teach Your Hereditary
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Aleister Crowley
Complete Virtues Worthless Collection Willpower Absence Talents Most Wholly
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. Akhenaton
Life Heart Words Virtues Guide Give Lean Unto She Mistress Hear Prudence Maxims Human Store Heed Them Human Life Her Thine Universal
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand
Love Character You Man Love Is Joy Reward Values Earn Virtues Moral One-Man Price Emotional He Qualities Another Greatest Greatest Reward Person Achieved Paid Your Expression Receives
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lost Virtues Rivers Self-Interest Sea
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. Casey Stengel
You Older Crimes Virtues Possessed Out Blamed Never Itself Begin Get Committed Younger Credit
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth. Jakob Bohme
Love God Love Is Sense Virtue Virtues Higher Highest Principle Greater Greatest God Love Than Whence Being While Forth Certain Flow
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? Sydney J. Harris
Life People World Not Knowing Strangers Else Complete Virtues Way Ninety Ourselves Ability Per Through Almost Almost All Know Most Knowing How Real Woe Go Anyone Anyone Else Cent Themselves Us Even
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke
Guard Other Virtues Support Fortitude
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