Goodness Quotes - Page 7

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

Anne Rice

Nothing is purely evil.

K. Weikel

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.

K. Weikel

There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in the name of love and goodness. Hence, in order to reduce hate and evil we need to be aware of love and goodness, rather than hate and evil.

Franco Santoro

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Gregory Maguire

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

Iain Pears

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.t

Daniel Webster

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

Michael Bassey Johnson

All our good deeds cannot save us.We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.

Lailah GiftyAkita

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace is goodness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Goodness is grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If the only thing I did for the rest of my life was treat others kindly, file manila folders, and sit on the porch watching the grass grow it would be enough. It had to be. I did the math. The number of people who actually achieve a significant legacy is trifling compared to the vast number who go from birth to death living relatively unremarkable lives (at least on the surface). And maybe that wasn't the failure I'd been conditioned to believe. Maybe there was something to be said in praise of an outwardly unremarkable life. Maybe there were deep everyday forms of magic that had nothing to do with profound acomplishments or a Twitter feed that resonated down through the ages.

Clara Bensen

Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

Bryant McGill

When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you’re suffering with them.” “The good side of bad acts?” I say. “I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.

Mark Matousek

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

E.A. Bucchianeri

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

Elizabeth Kostova

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

Geoffrey Wood

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.

Robert B. Reich

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

Anthony Liccione

You will find two kinds of people in the world. Some say that there are the bad and the good. But it isn’t like that. Since what is good for one may be bad for another. No, that doesn’t work. You have to depend on your intuition.“There are those who make you feel inside as if you are drinking a good, warm soup – even if you are hungry and the two of you have nothing to eat. In spite of that they nourish you.“And then there are those who cause you to freeze inside, even if you are sitting before a roaring fire and have eaten your fill. Those you should keep away from. They are not good for you, even though others might say that they are good people…

Bodil Bredsdorff

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Anna Sewell

Is there a definition of a truly good person? .... Many say that "Nice guys finish last", that "kindness is weakness", and so on. To those of you who are told "Your too nice" or you tell yourself that. That is something to hold on to! So many people say "screw it" I can't be walked on or treated this way. So they become what they think is "tough" ,"smarter" or it's just easier. It's really not. Because even though you think you get "respect" you had to sacrifice the good part of who you are for it.

Monique Reza

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

LordBloodySoul

They truly embodied goodness and generosity – like angels sent to save me in my hour of greatest need. Mohammed had risked everything to keep a promise to my father. He and his family saved not only my life, but also my faith in others.

Zack Love

A Simple act of Kindness can create endless Ripples

Pushkar Saraf

Kindness is all we have to give others

Kimberley Freeman

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

Robin Caldwell

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

Heather Wolf

When God blesses you, the highest form of gratitude is open-handedness.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

We are all citizens of the world and we owe it to the world to make it a better place.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Even Karma rewards generosity. The good that you do must surely catch up with you!

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Words like “patience”, and “kindness”, and “goodness”. They are the words of a hero.

Mark Andrew Poe

I don’t believe in a god, not in the traditional sense anyway. I guess that’s what being raised Catholic has done to me. But I do believe in energy. I do believe in right and wrong. I do believe in kindness and truth.

R.B. O'Brien

Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!

Richelle E. Goodrich

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

Ana Monnar

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

Gautama Buddha

When we see goodness in everything and everyone, we become good.

Debasish Mridha

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

Jacqueline Carey

Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science? Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?

Robert G. Ingersoll

Kindness is still the best antidote.

Richelle E. Goodrich

To be good, is to be like God. Our purpose in life is to try and reach that standard. We will always fall short, but in our lifetime if we try our best to make a world where everyone is treated equally with respect, empathy, and compassion, the big payoff is that we will be rewarded with that exact thing in Heaven.

Lewis N. Roe

Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others.

Angelica Hopes

If only you could be yourself." they shouted. So, she did. "You are not like me or anyone I have met!" they screamed. So, she blended. "You are so fake." they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

Shannon L. Alder

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

Shannon L. Alder

If we love unconditionally just like our Creator, we will awaken of the goodness in souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

Boethius

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

Abhijit Naskar

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

Ruta Sepetys

Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

Chris Burkmenn

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?- Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world.(- А теперь скажи мне, что это ты все время употребляешь слова добрыелюди"? Ты всех, что ли, так называешь?- Всех, - ответил арестант, - злых людей нет на свете.)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

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