Character Quote by Mary Oliver

“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.”

— Loraine Despres

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

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

— Rick Hanson

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins

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

— Charles H. Cooley

“Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.”

— Michael J. Sullivan

“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

“Without temptation what value is virtue?”

— Ian Brady

“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and…

— Danielle Teller

“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with virtue, a…

— Chin-Ning Chu

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our…

— Aristotle

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck