Character Quote by Thomas Paine

So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

— Anonymous

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

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

— Aristotle

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be…

— Marcel Proust

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— John Vanbrugh

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

— Benjamin Franklin

“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

What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

— William Cowper

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

— Eric Hoffer

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld