Goodness Quotes - Page 12

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.

I was wrong, I thought I could change her to different, something better, elegant, but instead of it the same thing she gifted to me, don't know why, when, how, but she did so well..!

Ridhdhesh Jivawala

We see so much bad and evil that we forget there could still be good left, somewhere. If you think you deserve to be treated well, it’s a sign that there still so much good left. People only treat us as best as their ability allows them; if you deserve more, try as much as you can to treat them better.

Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Mae West

The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun announces its presence with light, not words; do likewise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Make your own luck, and then share it with others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from the ocean; when it rises, it carries more than itself along with it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The world is full of angels; if you can’t find one, be one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good to others; and if you want to lead an exceptional life, be good to everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

They say I am a reformer. They say wrong: for I have long since given up any such chimerical idea, as that of being able to make men happier who are wicked and miserable by prescription. Withdrawing, therefore, from any such Utopian and hopeless attempt, I believed the best thing I could do was, to relieve, where I could, individual distress, and to lighten the chains that villany often imposes on simplicity under the name of law. In this I have done some good, and what else ought a man to do on this earth?

Charlotte Turner Smith

Some things are too good to be true and truly are good and true.

Constance Friday

Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt

Constance Friday

Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the haters health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.

Gugu Mona

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

Eleanor Farjeon

Be inspired by the goodness in people and not their flaws.

Rudolf Jerome Ragay

People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the hater’s health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.

People are good because they are good in hiding their bad.

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

Kelli Jae Baeli

People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

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

Laurence Sterne

It is good people who make good places.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

Banana Yoshimoto

Love knows the way because love is the way.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life,’ ‘what did I accomplish,’ ‘what did I not accomplish,’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and helping fill others’ glasses back up with love.

Emilyann Girdner

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy.

Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn, Teach, Love, Experience and Grow. That's what I know about this life we live.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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