Sentence examples for virtuous habits from inspiring English sources

The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.

Performing that function in a friendly way (the author used to be a TV tech correspondent), the book advises curing "e-obesity" by cultivating virtuous habits.

Men who liked and respected and enjoyed one another were more likely to cultivate the virtuous habits that would truly enable the nation's citizens to engage in "the pursuit of happiness".

Writing of the evolution of human cooperation, Darwin predicted that "looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger, becoming perhaps fixed by inheritance.

Most of the time, however, both in our personal lives and on the job, we manage to muddle through whatever moral puzzles might arise by appealing to virtuous habits instilled in us by our parents, or to various rules of thumb that have provided good guidance in the past, or by groping our way analogically from one case to another.

Their attitude seems to be that healthy Americans are healthy solely as a result of their virtuous habits.

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) by Richard Eyre If we continue to admire Arthur Miller in Britain (which is far from universally the case in the US), it's because we have the virtuous habit of treating classics as if they were contemporaneous.

The result is a virtuous cycle of habit-driven behavior resulting in total market domination.

Many Americans do voluntary work and most go to church; but many do not extend these habits of virtuous involvement to national politics.

But once it has been challenged — by Jacobins, or Bolsheviks, or abolitionists — it is no longer a virtuous bundle of unthought habits by which the past guides the present.

Yet, one must perform appropriate virtuous actions to develop the habit of the virtue and to know the relevant right dictates.