Ability Quote by Laozi

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

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

— Joseph Chenier

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

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

— Alexis Carrel

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

— Seneca the Younger

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes…

— Terry Eagleton

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

— Plato

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves…

— Aristotle

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero