Top 200 Virtue Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

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2. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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3. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

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4. “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Peace Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

5. “If it is not right do not do it. If it is not true do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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6. “Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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7. “THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?”

— Alan Redpath

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8. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

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9. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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10. “The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”

— Confucius

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11. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

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12. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”

— Max Lucado

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13. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Kindness Quotes

14. “Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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15. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

— Anne Frank

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16. “Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.”

— Aristotle

17. “God didn’t call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.”

— Mother Teresa

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18. “Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.”

— Therese of Lisieux

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Intention Quotes

19. “Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes

20. “One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “Patience is a conquering virtue.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Also featured in: Patience Quotes

22. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”

— Aristotle

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23. “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.”

— Joel Osteen

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24. “Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Helping Quotes

25. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Taoism Quotes

26. “Give out what you most want to come back.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Clever Quotes

27. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

— Aristotle

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28. “The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ”

— Socrates

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29. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Solomon

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30. “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”

— M.H. McKee

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31. “Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.”

— James Freeman Clarke

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Happy Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Helping Quotes

32. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on them?”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Morality Quotes, Practice Quotes, Helping Quotes

33. “Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Values Quotes, Ego Quotes

34. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Values Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Work

35. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

— Solomon

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36. “Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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37. “Purity, perseverance, and energy - these three I want.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Values Quotes

38. “Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

Also featured in: Communication Quotes, Humility Quotes, Quotes About Kids

39. “Help yourself by helping others.”

— John Templeton

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Values Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Helping Quotes

40. “Be as you wish to seem.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Famous Quotes, Values Quotes

41. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Morality Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

42. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

43. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Character Quotes

44. “In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Soul Quotes

45. “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Short Motivational Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

46. “People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Character Quotes

47. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”

— Joyce Meyer

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48. “Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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49. “Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Character Quotes

50. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”

— Alan Simpson

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