Goodness Quotes - Page 3

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

Geoffrey Wood

For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing.

Geoffrey Wood

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

Geoffrey Wood

The intimate space of your personal life should be reserved for amazing, beautiful, radiant souls — good, wholesome and loving people.

Bryant McGill

Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.

Bryant McGill

Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.

Bryant McGill

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

You will never know anyone more intimately than yourself. Love yourself and be good to yourself.

Bryant McGill

If your attitudes are good, then your world will be better.

Bryant McGill

At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us. When he took grandmother's hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, 'Good woman!' He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. 'The prayers of all good people are good,' he said quietly.

Willa Cather

Now I realize that everything you need for measuring a person can be found in the nature of what he chooses to hide from everyone else. That's all you need to know to gauge his goodness.

Jamie Mason

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.

John Adams

Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.

Rachel Held Evans

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don’t know what to make of it.

Anne Brontë

Of course it's better to be good. I know it ism but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it.

L.M. Montgomery

The seed of good reaps the harvest of goodness.

Sunday Adelaja

Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What else could it be but to live life fully— to pay out goodnesslike the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.

Marcus Aurelius

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

Karen Swallow Prior

Good deeds are ambassadors from Heaven.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Both God and goodness are structured upon a foundation which solicits the essentials of higher level logic – a part of holy-istic culture.

Priyavrat Thareja

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

Edith Wharton

-the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all the abundant evidence to the contrary surrounding her. She felt that the sniper was essentially a good man because during the siege, she said, he had often shot over her and her husband's heads to warn them that he was watching and that they shouldn't move so carelessly in their own apartment.

Aleksandar Hemon

(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language is singularly agreeable to me, and the information she communicates is often just what I wished to gain.”“Well, then, with Miss Temple you are good?”“Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. There is no merit in such goodness.”“A great deal: you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and sothey would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”“You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.”“But I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.”“Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it.” “How? I don’t understand.”“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”“What then?”“Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example.”“What does He say?”“Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.

Charlotte Brontë

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

Dalai Lama XIV

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

Fulton J. Sheen

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

R.M. ArceJaeger

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Colby Buzzell

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do the Good to Bad then Bad will do Good to you

shashidhar sa

We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is looking up to us as we take each breath. We can be just a grape or we can be the juice that offers simplicity, nourishment and refreshment. Extract and empty your goodness. Pass it into the hearts of the people looking up to you. It will multiply beyond your highest good.

Angie karan

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

C.S. Lewis

She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.

Han Kang

It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

J.R.R. Tolkien

He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.

Orson Scott Card

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

Edmund White

Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.

Gugu Mona

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

So why not make it better? If we want to see goodness in our lives, we should make it happen. If I can bring just a little help to someone's life, even for a moment, it's better than doing nothing at all.

Davon M. Custis

When you help other people you also help yourself it's impossible to not feel good when you do good for other people

Dalia

You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.

Diyar Harraz

y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still havethat there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science hasgiven him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government,through dangers and distortions and failures, is the Americancause. Faith in self government, when all is said and done, is faith in theeventual goodness of man

John dos Passos

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

Marissa Meyer

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

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

It is true that there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, but intimately connected with love and forgiveness, faith and hope, that can fill our minds and hearts with positive energy- we can overcome head on, any obstacle or hardship we may encounter.

Angie karan

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

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Sadness makes you notice the goodness.

Emily Huffstetler

The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.

Amit Abraham

Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together

Phil Mitchell

Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness.

Plato

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

F.H. Bradley

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Bob Hicok

Life was small but good. (15)

Francesca Lia Block

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

Confucius

Goodness preaches constantly, wants to change humanity, to work miracles from one day to the next, makes a show of its substance, wants to question essentials, but in fact is most often just hollow, lacking in substance, essence itself. A good word which has not yet been put into practice holds within itself every virgin possibility and is more than a good deed, the outcome of which is dubious, its effect arguable. In general words are always more than deeds.

Deszo Koszstolanyi

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Colum McCann

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

Megan Jacobson

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

Toni Morrison

Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.

Gwenda Bond

Don’taccept good things from bad people.

Malala Yousafzai

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