Goodness Quotes

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.

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.