Certain Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

— John Roberts

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in…

— Eric Hoffer

“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”

— Eric Nicol

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

— Plato

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

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

— Donald Fehr

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with…

— Francis Hutcheson

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Anonymous

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan