Character Quote by Aristotle

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But…

— Matthew Arnold

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

— Isaac Barrow

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

— Mary Renault

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

— Henry David Thoreau

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others…

— Samuel Johnson

“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather, we have…

— Aristotle

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in…

— Anthony Trollope

“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain…

— Michael J. Sandel

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor…

— Aristotle

“Excellence is a custom at the land of greatness, it drives our culture.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes…

— Lesslie Newbigin