Ability may get you to the top but it's character that will keep you there. Abraham Lincoln

Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel and countenance. Benjamin Franklin

Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good. Bible

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. French (on beauty)

Character is easier kept than recovered. English (on character and virtue)

Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Do good and care not to whom. Portuguese (on good and evil)

Do what comes natural. unknown

Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach. Belizean (on balance and moderation)

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. unknown

Don't toot your own horn. unknown

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. Benjamin Franklin

Give credit where credit is due. M. Floy

Good example is the best sermon. Benjamin Franklin

Good wine needs no bush. R. Taverner

Goodness does not consist in greatness but greatness in goodness. Athenaeus

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee. Benjamin Franklin

Handsome is as handsome does. Anthony Munday

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. Benjamin Franklin

If evils come not then our fears are in vain; and if they do, fear but augments the pain. Benjamin Franklin

If I keep my character, I'll be rich enough. Plutonius

If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others. Spanish (on character and virtue)

If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. Belizean (on character and virtue)

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up. Booker T. Washington

If you'ld have a servant that you like, serve yourself. Benjamin Franklin

It is better to take many injuries than to give one. Benjamin Franklin

It is easy to kick a person when he is down. Aesop

It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest. Latin Proverb

No one is hurt by doing the right thing. Hawaiian (on good and evil)

Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions. Darren Bateman