Be careful Quote by Samuel Johnson

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform…

— Aristotle

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and where men…

— Thomas Paine

“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain…

— Michael J. Sandel

“The good are rewarded morally, not physically; their own virtues, honours, mental peace, and satisfaction are ample compensation for their goodness. Confucius, for example,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others…

— Samuel Johnson

“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

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

— William Hazlitt

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people,…

— Bertrand Russell

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value…

— Richard Steele

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have…

— Will Durant

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in…

— John of the Cross