Goodness Quotes

The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Charles Kingsley

Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.

A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

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

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

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

Henry David Thoreau

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

Bushrod H. Campbell

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

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

Baltasar Gracián

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warner

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Euripides

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

La Rochefoucauld

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

George Bernard Shaw

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

La Rochefoucauld

The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Bible

When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Bible

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

Charles Kingsley

Good things are not done in a hurry.

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

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Sara Jeannette Duncan

I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Sign in Springdalea

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

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

William Feather

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

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

Homer

If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Gifts are hooks.

Martial

Good things when short are twice as good.

Baltasar Gracián

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Ignatius Loyola

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Butler Yeats

Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required.

Bible

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

Robertson Davies

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

Mignon McLaughlin

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

Anonymous

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.

G.K. Chesterton

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet

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

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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