Character Quote by Ryan Holiday

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

— Rick Hanson

“Virtue is a form or expertise or skill, the knowledge of how to live well in every way which shapes the whole personality. Virtue…

— Patrick Ussher

“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and yet others…

— Aristotle

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

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

— Plato

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery…

— Francois Fenelon