Goodness Quotes

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed toward goodness, just as water tends to flow downwards. There is no water but flows downwards, and no man but shows his tendency to be good. Now, by striking water hard, you may splash it higher than your forehead, and by damming it, you may make it go uphill. But, is that the nature of water? It is external force that causes it to do so. Likewise, if a man is made to do what is not good, his nature is being similarly forced.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.