Character Quote by Ruth Benedict

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner,…

— Aristotle

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

— Socrates

“But, as Otare Mannoni has pointed out, gratitude is a strange emotion in that it is made up of two seemingly contradictory expressions: first,…

— Frances FitzGerald

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

— John Milton

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

— John Adams

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded…

— G.K. Chesterton

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be…

— Francis Quarles