Virtue Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old virtue quotes, virtue sayings, and virtue proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Ability may get you to the top but it's character that will keep you there.
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Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel and countenance.
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Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good.
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Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
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Character is easier kept than recovered.
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Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
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Do good and care not to whom.
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Do what comes natural.
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Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach.
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Don't toot your own horn.
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Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.
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Give credit where credit is due.
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Good example is the best sermon.
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Good wine needs no bush.
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Goodness does not consist in greatness but greatness in goodness.
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Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.
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Handsome is as handsome does.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
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If evils come not then our fears are in vain; and if they do, fear but augments the pain.
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If I keep my character, I'll be rich enough.
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If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others.
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If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.
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If you'ld have a servant that you like, serve yourself.
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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It is easy to kick a person when he is down.
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It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest.
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No one is hurt by doing the right thing.
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Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.