Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying historturer but not of keeping his temper.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

— Aristotle

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what…

— Aristotle

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own hands. Wisdom,…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha