Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton

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.
Saint Augustine

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Kong Fu Zi

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
David Mallet

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
John Burns

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

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

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall