Character Quote by Charles Dickens

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

— Plato

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“If we sacrifice everything for a cause, we tend to become a spokesperson instead of a lover, an organizer instead of a wife, a…

— Amy Harmon

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

“There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.”

— Antoine François Prévost

“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices”

— Ayn Rand

“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

— John Twelve Hawks

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was…

— Henry David Thoreau