Customs Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do it gladly.

— Doctor Anil Sinha

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage,…

— Martin Seligman

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

— Anonymous

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation…

— Aristotle

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Discipline is not a virtue, but the solicitor of virtuous character.

— Colby Tatem

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be…

— Thomas Reid

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

— Ambrose Bierce

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

— William Shakespeare

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so…

— Isadora Duncan

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last