Benefits Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

— B. Carroll Reece

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice…

— John Adams

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

“Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception,…

— Aristotle

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

— Mark Twain

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

— Confucius