#virtues

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #catch #company #contagious #disease

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #our #than #tied #virtues

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. ↗

— Anatole France

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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#become #conservatism #effort #exalt #fanatics

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. ↗

— John Locke

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#his #learn #man #may #more

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ↗