Top 200 Virtue Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.”

— Ellen G. White

152. “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”

— Léon Bloy

153. “Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

154. “The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

— Confucius

155. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

156. “Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”

— Mother Teresa

157. “You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.”

— Ayn Rand

158. “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

159. “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

160. “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

— Paul the Apostle

161. “Who sows virtue reaps honor.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

162. “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”

— Alan Cohen

163. “Kindness makes for much better teamwork.”

— John Wooden

164. “Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

— Dante Alighieri

165. “In a world where you can be anything, choose to be kind.”

— Nitya Prakash

166. “Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.”

— N. T. Wright

167. “I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.”

— Albert Camus

168. “A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.”

— Billy Bragg

169. “Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.”

— Pope John Paul II

170. “With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.”

— Charles Baudelaire

171. “To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.”

— Heraclitus

172. “Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.”

— Thomas Aquinas

173. “The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

174. “Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.”

— Stefan Molyneux

175. “The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

176. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

— Indira Gandhi

177. “Everything that’s coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!”

— Bob Proctor

178. “Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

179. “Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.”

— John Milton

180. “There is no virtue in poverty.”

— Joseph Murphy

181. “Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”

— Cato the Younger

182. “In justice is all virtues found in sum.”

— Aristotle

183. “Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.”

— Christopher Hitchens

184. “We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.”

— Ajahn Chah

185. “The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.”

— Laozi

186. “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

— William Faulkner

187. “Laziness is a programmer’s main virtue.”

— Larry Wall

188. “Honor your commitments with integrity.”

— Les Brown

189. “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

— A. A. Milne

190. “No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.”

— Esther Hicks

191. “If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?”

— Chanakya

192. “In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

— Aleister Crowley

193. “Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.”

— Horace

194. “I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”

— Carl Sagan

195. “Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.”

— Philip James Bailey

196. “Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

197. “Remind oneself continually of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.”

— Marcus Aurelius

198. “By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

199. “Justice is happiness according to virtue.”

— John Rawls

200. “Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.”

— Charles Baudelaire