Action Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange;…

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of…

— Max Heindel

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known…

— Archibald Alexander

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

— Arthur Dobrin

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

— Alexis Carrel

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato