Character Quote by Aristotle

“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.”

— Aristotle

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

“For 'activity in conformity with virtue' involves virtue.”

— Aristotle

“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.”

— Amin Maalouf

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

“Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.”

— N.T. Wright

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

— Thomas Chalmers

“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.”

— Marsha Hinds