“One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.”

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

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“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 (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.”

Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer

“I believe Beauty is the condition of the perfect life, just as important as Virtue and Truth.”

Stuart Merrill (1863–1915) American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language

“There is no more consensus on what justice means than there is on the character of the good. If anything, there is less. Among the virtues, justice is one of the most shaped by convention. For that reason it is among the most changeable.”

John Gray (1948) British philosopher

“What we see in Lincoln is a collection of the virtues we think are most important in a democratic leadership.”

Allen C. Guelzo (1953) American historian

“Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”

Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed