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Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character (Virtues Quotes)
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair (Virtues Quotes)
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You’re going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability (Virtues Quotes)
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them. It’s good to keep this in mind (Virtues Quotes)
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not (Virtues Quotes)
To insist on living until we die may be one of life’s greatest virtues (Virtues Quotes)
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them (Virtues Quotes)
We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues (Virtues Quotes)
Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don’t (Virtues Quotes)
Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty (Virtues Quotes)
The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards. (Virtues Quotes)
The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed and delusion (Virtues Quotes)
For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life (Virtues Quotes)
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one’s own efforts (Virtues Quotes)
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues (Virtues Quotes)