Character Quote by Aristotle

“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.”

— Tobin Wilson

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

— Victor Hugo

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be…

— Samuel Johnson

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when…

— Samuel Johnson

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not…

— Anonymous

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

— J. C. Ryle

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

— Edmund Burke

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to…

— Herbert Simon

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.”

— Linda Bender

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not…

— Miguel de Cervantes