Be good Quote by Charles Henry Parkhurst

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people,…

— Bertrand Russell

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

— Nikola Tesla

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

— Michael Drayton

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes,…

— E. Stanley Jones

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

— Susannah Cahalan