(911 quotes found)
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
William Shakespeare
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
“All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.”
Maya Angelou
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
Lao Tzu
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
