Appreciate Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

— William Penn

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others…

— Samuel Johnson

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

— Stephen Fry

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

— Juvenal

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

— Ajahn Chah

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Robert Hughes

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

— John Bradshaw