Goodness Quotes

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to...

If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if ...

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the ind...

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that ...

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious ...

They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect t...

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the ac...

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule...

Benevolence is often very peremptory.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the vict...

And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling g...

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

...And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive o...

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will becom...

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He ...

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost...

If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.

As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accid...

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the...

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which int...

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vo...

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or ...

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

Nonviolence is a way of life, where the task is to awaken the underlying goodness of every human bei...

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origi...

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must b...

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your hu...

I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who w...

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

Não importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa ma...

There is no sinner like a young saint.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping ...

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flower...

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other th...

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidentl...

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything ...

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

Good things when short are twice as good.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good ac...

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him...

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...

There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as tho...

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies...

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but...

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another ...

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And s...

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident...

(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ...

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of g...

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it did...

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arroganc...

The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. ...

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr...

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated asso...

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in k...

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for ...

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a go...

I've thought about that often since. I mean, about the word nice. Perhaps I mean good. Of course the...

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My...

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.