virtues

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

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

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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

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

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

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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

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

No one gossips about other people__ secret virtues.

Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!

The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which Christianity has not adopted, but invented, are faith, hope and charity. Now_ the first evident fact, I say, is that the pagan virtues, such as justice and temperance, are the sad virtues, and that the mystical virtues of faith, hope, and charity are the gay and exuberant virtues. And the second evident fact, which is even more evident, is the fact that the pagan virtues are the reasonable virtues, and that the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity are in their essence as unreasonable as they can be_charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

Endurance is a good virtue.

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not less salutary, stream.

Virtues are worth more than the material things.

Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.