Top 200 Virtue Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

52. “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

— Saint Augustine

53. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

54. “Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.”

— Swami Vivekananda

55. “Whatever you do, think of the Glory of God as your main goal.”

— John Bosco

56. “Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.”

— Mother Teresa

57. “She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.”

— Lao Tzu

58. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”

— Billy Graham

59. “True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.”

— Lao Tzu

60. “Integrity never goes out of style.”

— Jim George

61. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

62. “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

— Saint Augustine

63. “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”

— Mother Teresa

64. “Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

65. “If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

66. “Give, but give until it hurts.”

— Mother Teresa

67. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

68. “I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.”

— Les Brown

69. “Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.”

— John Wesley

70. “Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.”

— Tony Dungy

71. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

72. “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

— Solomon

73. “To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”

— Plato

74. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

— Maya Angelou

75. “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”

— Joyce Meyer

76. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

— William Shakespeare

77. “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”

— Aristotle

78. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

— Benjamin Franklin

79. “The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.”

— Confucius

80. “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

— Rick Warren

81. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

— Charles Dickens

82. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

83. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

— Maya Angelou

84. “Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.”

— Confucius

85. “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.”

— Albert Schweitzer

86. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

— Mother Teresa

87. “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

— George Washington Carver

88. “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”

— Confucius

89. “I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.”

— Jim Rohn

90. “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

— Mark Twain

91. “You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

— John Wooden

92. “Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

93. “Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

94. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

— Confucius

95. “When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others – think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

96. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”

— Desmond Tutu

97. “Charity is the root of all good works.”

— Saint Augustine

98. “The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.”

— Marcus Aurelius

99. “Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

100. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

— Confucius