Aspire Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

— Walter Scott

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

— William Arthur Ward

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience…

— Donna Leon

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

— Sallust

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.…

— Alexis Carrel

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship,…

— William Shakespeare

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

— Roger Penrose

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin