Goodness Quotes
Goodness Quote of the day
It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
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.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness, ’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.
Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?
But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
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.
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.
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.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
