Goodness Quotes - Page 4

Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.

Feeling tired of your four walls?Jesus commanded us to "GO", not sit! (Mark 16:15) Just saying!

Goodness follows goodness, all in God’s time.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power

François de La Rochefoucauld

Acknowledge the good around you and the simplicity it takes to recognise it

Moonish Sood

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

Thomas Mann

You’re the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You’re the light people crawl through darkness for. You’re the good that balances out all the bad.

Jeannine Allison

Believer of extremely good world that you and I are part of.

Kishan Barai

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

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

Cassandra Clare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

William Shakespeare

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Joe Hill

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera

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

Stephen King

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

C.S. Lewis

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Adam Smith

But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.

Anonymous

Not all good things come from good people.

Toba Beta

To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

Shūsaku Endō

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.

Anne Rice

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Laura Lippman

The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteemnothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practicevirtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is notvirtuous to approach his person."Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I havenot seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient."Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it.

Confucius

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.

Confucius

I wasn’t as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.What happened?Everything ends. And it’s how they end that leaves the lasting effect.

Zia Haider Rahman

The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts of God. Now he had been dissolved into his thoughts which are beyond our conception in their nature and their multiplicity and their power. God was at least the name of something which we thought was good. Now even the name has gone and the spiritual world is scattered. There is nothing any more to prevent the magnetism of many spirits.

Iris Murdoch

If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.

Molly Friedenfeld

Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I've thought about that often since. I mean, about the word nice. Perhaps I mean good. Of course they mean nothing, when you start to think about them. A good man, one says; a good woman; a nice man, a nice woman. Only in talk of course, these are not words you'd use in a novel. I'd be careful not to use them.Yet of that group, I will say simply, without further analysis, that George was a good person, and that Willi was not. That Maryrose and Jimmy and Ted and Johnnie the pianist were good people, and that Paul and Stanley Lett were not. And furthermore, I'd bet that ten people picked at random off the street to meet them, or invited to sit in that party under the eucalyptus trees that night, would instantly agree with this classification-would, if I used the word good, simply like that, know what I meant.And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of 'personality.' Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the 'personality' doesn't exist any more. It's the theme of half the novels written, the theme of the sociologists and all the other -ologists. We're told so often that human personality has disintegrated into nothing under pressure of all our knowledge that I've even been believing it. Yet when I look back to that group under the trees, and re-create them in my memory,suddenly I know it's nonsense. Suppose I were to meet Maryrose now, all these years later,she'd make some gesture, or turn her eyes in such a way, and there she'd be, Maryrose, and indestructible. Or suppose she 'broke down,' or became mad. She would break down into her components, and the gesture, the movement of the eyes would remain, even though some connection had gone. And so all this talk, this antihumanist bullying, about the evaporation of the personality becomes meaningless for me at that point when I manufacture enough emotional energy inside myself to create in memory some human being I've known. I sit down, and remember the smell of the dust and the moonlight, and see Ted handing a glass of wine to George, and George's over-grateful response to the gesture. Or I see, as in a slow-motion film, Maryrose turn her head, with her terrifyingly patient smile... I've written the word film. Yes. The moments I remember all have the absolute assurance of a smile, a look, a gesture, in a painting or a film. Am I saying then that the certainty I'm clinging to belongs to the visual arts, and not to the novel, not to the novel at all, which has been claimed by the disintegration and the collapse? What business has a novelist to cling to the memory of a smile or a look, knowing I so well the complexities behind them? Yet if I did not, I'd never be able to set a word down on paper; just as I used to keep myself from going crazy in this cold northern city by deliberately making myself remember the quality of hot sunlight on my skin.And so I'll write again that George was a good man.

Doris Lessing

When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it is getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

Heather Wolf

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

Charlene Costanzo

Stop looking at people's religions. Try to look at the goodness within them.

Abhijit Naskar

I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me.

Fakeer Ishavardas

It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be, worth risking everything.Love.

Lauren Kate

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Mae West

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Viktor E. Frankl

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

Leila Aboulela

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

Bryant McGill

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Give up good to welcome great.

Debasish Mridha

Everything good is good because of the love it contains.

John K. Brown

If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalistic fallacy. It will always remain pertinent to ask, whether the feeling itself is good; and if do, then good cannot itself be identical with any feeling.

G.E. Moore

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Immanuel Kant

During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

Bryant McGill

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.

Anne Brontë

A step towards love is a mile towards joy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love mercy, love kindness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What you give today you get tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.

Bryant McGill

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here?

Molly Friedenfeld

If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

George Eliot

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