有关品德与修养的谚语

Virtue never grows old. 美德不会衰老。

Nurture passes nature. 教养胜过天性。

Honesty is the best policy. 诚实为上策。

Let bygones be bygones. 既往不咎。

Call a spade a spade. 是啥说啥, 难听不怕。

Speech is silver, silence is gold. 雄辩如银, 沉默如金。

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you. 己所不欲, 勿施于人。

To err is human. To forgive, divine. 有过失是人之常情。 能原谅别人, 才是超越常人。

Modesty helps one progress; conceit makes one lag behind. 谦虚使人进步, 骄傲使人落后。

Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. 人的品格, 犹如花的香味。

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 欲登高梯必自平地始。

He is only bright that shines by himself. 真正的漂亮靠自身的光彩。

Every medal has two sides. 每个勋章都有两面。/ 每个问题都有正反两面。

The overturned cart ahead is a warning to the carts behind. 前车之覆, 后车之鉴。

Without modesty beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. 没有谦虚, 美丽就不端庄, 机智也讨人嫌。

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. 抱负是一切高尚操行的萌芽。

It is the careless man that will suffer; never will the prudent man fall into a trap. 只有大意吃亏, 没有小心上当。

They are fools who adulate every decision of their leaders. 对领导的每个决定一味奉承的人是蠢材。

An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn. 乐观的人看到玫瑰, 悲观的人只看到它的刺。

Correct the mistakes if you have committed them, and avoid them if you have not. 有则改之, 无则加勉。