Virtues Quotes

The qualities worth keeping

This Virtues quotes collection compares good qualities to fragrances that fade once revealed, and names the home as humanity's first school of virtue. Related: Character quotes.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Quotes by Abigail Adams

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

Winston Churchill

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Quotes by William Shenstone

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

Quotes by Vitruvius

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Quotes by Sidney Lanier

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

Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Quotes by Rene Descartes

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Quotes by Rebecca West

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

Quotes by Quintilian

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

Quotes by Quintilian

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Quotes by Plutarch

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Quotes by Nagarjuna

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

Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

Quotes by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Quotes by Larry Wall

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Quotes by Krista Tippett

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Quotes by Klaus Kinski

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One entry even prefers someone's disliked virtues to another's admired vices, adding a playful twist. See also Morality and Strength quotes.