Character Quote by Chin-Ning Chu

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

— Plato

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

“Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.”

— Tiruvalluvar

“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.”

— John Wesley

“Throughout the history of mankind, the virtues embraced by humanity have remained true, unwavering, and consistent.”

— Susan C. Young

“Absolute truthfulness, and conscience as its manifestation, are within everybody. Acknowledging it is wisdom, and living it is virtue.”

— Ilchi Lee

“Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it…

— St. Francis de Sales

Virtue is harmony.

— Pythagoras

“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political…

— Aristotle

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

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau