Character Quote by Martin Seligman

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

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

— Plato

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful…

— Vincent de Paul

“Virtue is a form or expertise or skill, the knowledge of how to live well in every way which shapes the whole personality. Virtue…

— Patrick Ussher

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

“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break…

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Jonathan V. Last

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

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

— Anonymous

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle