Goodness Quotes

The greatest conduct is love in action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love begets joy.Joy begets peace.Peace begets patience.Patience begets kindness.Kindness begets goodness.Goodness begets faithfulness.Faithfulness begets gentleness.Gentleness begets self-control.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be good, see goodness in everyone.

~ Debasish Mridha

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

~ Deb Caletti

Why can’t I be like that? Why can’t I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can’t I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can’t I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can’t I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?

~ Marie Lu

You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.

~ Criss Jami

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.

~ Suzy Kassem

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To choose love is to reject hate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we read the Gospel, we shall know the goodness of the Good News.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

~ George Harrison

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.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.

~ Molly Anne Marie

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

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Imagine how differently you might approach each day by simply stating: God is good. God is good to me. God is good at being God. And today is yet another page in our great love story. Nothing that happens to you today will change that or even alter it in the slightest way.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

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

~ Kamand Kojouri

To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.

~ Suzy Kassem

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

~ Suzy Kassem

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.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.

~ Criss Jami

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.

~ Erica Sehyun Song

Goodwill is the goodness of grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Thank God for His goodness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we obey God, the more we shall know his goodness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must stay connected to vine to keep bearing fruits.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Generosity is an act of love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God loves all people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough to share with the world; the gift of love, kindness, goodness, smiles, hugs, prayer, inspiration, fellowship, volunteerism and many more.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you find a need, reach out to help.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is what the LORD requires of every man; to do justice, to love mercy and to humbly work with God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We live not by the money we possess but by the goodness of the Creator.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never grow weary of doing good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A world of goodness surrounds you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you chase anything in life chase the things that get you excited about living. Chase the things that give you hope, happiness and a glimpse of a better life. Chase the things that make you want to be a better person. Chase the things that inspire you to think, create and live joyfully. Chase the things that reinforce in your soul that you can make a difference. Chase the things that make you want to transform your heart from selfish to selfless. When you chase that kind of storm you are chasing rainbows.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My plans for the future are to serve more and better, to worry less about the things that are unimportant, to let my wife and children know how much I love them, to openly support whatever I can see is good, to appreciate and to encourage everyone in the best way possible, and, in short, to do more of what makes life meaningful.

~ Norris B. Finlayson

Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita