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.

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