Zitat des Tages über Tugenden / Virtues:
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Sure, I considered myself an anarchist; I considered myself - I still am, obviously - distrustful of the government. But I also understand the virtues of civility or democracy and kindness, of course. I wasn't throwing garbage cans through shop windows.
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.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
