Goodness Quotes

Inner beauty magnifies outer beauty.

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.

Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature.

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.

If you find a need, reach out to help.

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.

People before Profit.

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

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Do what you feel is right and good. There will always be haters and naysayers..and their problem..is just that..their problem!

Light in your soul kindles the light in your world.

We all want to look good, but genuine goodness is in the heart.

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.

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.

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

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.

Conquer evil with good deeds.

We want to bring light into media, we always keep that into mind... the message of love and goodness that still exists in the world...

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

The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.

Nothing is purely evil.

A good intention feeds no one.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

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

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

The law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed.

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

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

Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.

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

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

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil.... You, who see evil everywhere....' It was true, and it was not true.

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

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.

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.

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

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

Touched by an act of kindness, be kind to others.

Light is all a flower longs for, even when surrounded with priceless jewels.

An eternal life is a life that one lives according to his or her decree to ultimately be a fine human being, agreeing with the concept of goodness, foreseeing the dangers ahead either by prophesies or by anticipation and to serve our Heavenly Father unselfishly.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

No one who is good can ever be ugly.