The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

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.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

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.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.