Character Quote by James K.A. Smith

“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”

— St. Ambrose

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

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

— Confucius

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen…

— Quintilian

“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who have decided…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“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 is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.”

— Charles H. Cooley

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

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

“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

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

— Jonathan V. Last