Top 200 Virtue Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”

— Thomas Merton

102. “Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

103. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

— Aristotle

104. “The noblest revenge is to forgive.”

— Thomas Fuller

105. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

106. “The way of the superior person is threefold: virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise, they are free from perplexities; and bold, they are free from fear.”

— Confucius

107. “Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.”

— Umar

108. “The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.”

— Pope Francis

109. “A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

110. “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

111. “Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

112. “In everything give thanks.”

— Paul the Apostle

113. “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

— Albert Pike

114. “Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

115. “The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.”

— Confucius

116. “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

117. “The end of education is character.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

118. “Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

119. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

— Benjamin Franklin

120. “Be content to seem what you really are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

121. “The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”

— Mother Teresa

122. “The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It’s about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.”

— Nick Vujicic

123. “In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”

— Aristotle

124. “I’m blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”

— Joel Osteen

125. “You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”

— Brian Tracy

126. “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”

— Jana Stanfield

127. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.”

— Aristotle

128. “See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

129. “Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.”

— Farrah Gray

130. “Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.”

— Teresa of Ávila

131. “Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.”

— David Jeremiah

132. “Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”

— John Wesley

133. “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

134. “If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

135. “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

— Paul the Apostle

136. “The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

137. “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”

— St. Vincent de Paul

138. “We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

— Marcus Aurelius

139. “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

— Mother Teresa

140. “It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

141. “Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

— Marcus Aurelius

142. “Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”

— William Arthur Ward

143. “I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.”

— Roald Dahl

144. “God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”

— Desmond Tutu

145. “The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.”

— Swami Vivekananda

146. “The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.”

— Rick Warren

147. “To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.”

— Epictetus

148. “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

149. “No joy can equal the joy of serving others.”

— Sai Baba

150. “Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

— Muhammad Ali