- “Be impeccable with your word.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
- “Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.” ― French saying
- “Character is easier kept than recovered.” ― English saying
- “Do good and care not to whom.” ― Portuguese saying
- “Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.” ― Benjamin Franklin
- “When someone is angry and hateful toward you ~ they spit out all kinds of venom, to inflict you with unnecessary hurt and pain. But when you know who you are within, and you stand by your truth, their venom cannot poison you, its arrow turns and points straight back at them! To be humble and virtuous is a trait of the noble and the righteous” ― Angie Karan
- “Most good people are not good people every day all day long.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise. Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
- “Good example is the best sermon.” ― Benjamin Franklin
- “Being a victim doesn’t make one virtuous.” ― Shon Mehta
- “Civility costs nothing and buys everything.” ― Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- “It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.” ― Diogenes
- “When we develop the habit of appreciating others, they too appreciate us. This creates a virtuous cycle of appreciation in which there is mutual respect and admiration.” ― Awdhesh Singh
- “Ability may get you to the top but it’s character that will keep you there.” ― Abraham Lincoln
- “Fine manners and dignity are taught by the heart, not the dancing master.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “Purity is the key to higher consciousness and virtuous existence.” ― Pranita Deshpande
- “Censors are not virtuous but cowards, virtuous people can debate ideas that upset them and not demand opposing thoughts or words be expunged.” ― C.A.A. Savastano
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