Character Quote by Rumi

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

— Aristotle

She searched the world for true love. Finally she found him. When she stopped searching.

— Jason Santana

“I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.”

— Tahereh Mafi

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

Back then we were better-behaved than you young boystoday; we were better instructed; so I start in my bestest French:Mademoiselle, from the first time…

— Jacques Roumain

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

— Winifred Holtby

“One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely that he…

— Democritus

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…

— Thomas Jefferson