Character Quote by Barbara Pym

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

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

— Marsha Hinds

“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.”

— Loraine Despres

“One who calls virtue into being is one who has what it takes to make a success.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.”

— Tiruvalluvar

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I…

— Anne Frank

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

— John Twelve Hawks

“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over and over,…

— Rhoda Janzen

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck