Goodness Quotes

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything good starts with caring.

~ Shampa Sharma

Love is kind. Kind is love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life,’ ‘what did I accomplish,’ ‘what did I not accomplish,’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and helping fill others’ glasses back up with love.

~ Emilyann Girdner

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

~ Banana Yoshimoto

It is good people who make good places.

~ Anna Sewell

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

~ Laurence Sterne

People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

People are good because they are good in hiding their bad.

~ Ratish Edwards

Be inspired by the goodness in people and not their flaws.

~ Rudolf Jerome Ragay

People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the hater’s health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

~ Eleanor Farjeon

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.

~ Gugu Mona

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

~ Jeanne Duprau

Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.

~ Dario Spini

Some things are too good to be true and truly are good and true.

~ Constance Friday

They say I am a reformer. They say wrong: for I have long since given up any such chimerical idea, as that of being able to make men happier who are wicked and miserable by prescription. Withdrawing, therefore, from any such Utopian and hopeless attempt, I believed the best thing I could do was, to relieve, where I could, individual distress, and to lighten the chains that villany often imposes on simplicity under the name of law. In this I have done some good, and what else ought a man to do on this earth?

~ Charlotte Turner Smith

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

~ Mae West

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.

~ Jinnul Jr.

We see so much bad and evil that we forget there could still be good left, somewhere. If you think you deserve to be treated well, it’s a sign that there still so much good left. People only treat us as best as their ability allows them; if you deserve more, try as much as you can to treat them better.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

I was wrong, I thought I could change her to different, something better, elegant, but instead of it the same thing she gifted to me, don't know why, when, how, but she did so well..!

~ Ridhdhesh Jivawala

I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.

~ Daniel Nayeri

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

~ Arthur Golden

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

~ Melanie Dickerson

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Good people are always beautiful.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

~ Roald Dahl

Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.'They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'.'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan Safety First. But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me.

~ Muriel Spark

Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.

~ Adam Gidwitz

When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.

~ Steve Goodier

Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything.

~ Kamand Kojouri

AFFIRMATION: Letting love flow abundantly from me before me with illuminating unique and miraculous richness in every unfolding moment. Healing my hurts and inspiring my actions. Letting love live within me, that spreads beauty through all that I do and all that I am. Filling my thoughts with goodness and my intentions with kindness. Letting love brighten every corner of my world

~ Angie Karan

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.

~ Socrates

That's what it's all about. We are here to walk each other home. Home to our true self ~ which is love. How we treat our self and how we have the opportunity to make others feel good about them selves, to see and bring the goodness out of them is what grows us to become a more beautiful person also.

~ Angie Karan

Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is good.

~ Sarah Bessey