Become Quote by Bret Stephens

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

— Madame de Stael

“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

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

— Laozi

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Some parts of the population are starting to realize that character is extremely important and that it cannot be measured by the things we…

— Martha Stout

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint…

— Honore de Balzac

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

— Margaret Thatcher

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

— Saadi

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

— Alphonse Karr