If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one’s virtues in a vigorous way.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.
Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
DePaul’s plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
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.
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.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it. And then, there are notes and you change it, in the conventional studio system.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own efforts.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of 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.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders – those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay ‘transactional’ leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
I’d applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it’s that I’m good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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.
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Eggs is great at leading the Boxtrolls, and that’s probably my favorite trait of his. He is a Boxtroll, but he hasn’t lost all of his human virtues. He can get out of his box, and he can fight back, which the Boxtrolls can’t.
Dembele likes to take players on. He’s a dribbler and a power player who likes to break into space; he has the ability to do this. He has a lot of virtues.
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.
I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues.
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
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.
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