Goodness Quotes

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - s...

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever ta...

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very...

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very ...

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness w...

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance a...

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodn...

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving ...

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the...

Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil ...

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the e...

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...

The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give ...

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

Remember that everything that is good, whatever it’s origin, comes from the holy spirit.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you ...

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women f...

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...

He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better ...

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should...

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally a...

But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and ...

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as ...

The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers...

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger...

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...

y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still havethat there is enough goodness in man to use th...

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then th...

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I sha...

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus go...

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. ...

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when ...

Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to hims...

We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she h...

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It m...

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear a...

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts a...

Don’taccept good things from bad people.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...

Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, sa...

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not ...

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to ...

This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the sures...

May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and ...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not ...

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soi...

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...

How goodness heightens beauty!

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly...

Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underne...

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.