Character Quote by Charles Dickens

“We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.”

— Gary Zukav

“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any…

— George Eliot

“...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

— Aleister Crowley

“For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

“We will forever be vulnerable to the weaknesses in our own hearts and our selfish desires.”

— Jaime Buckley

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

— Maya Angelou

“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar