Goodness Quotes

Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words good people all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?- Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world.(- А теперь скажи мне, что это ты все время употребляешь слова добрыелюди? Ты всех, что ли, так называешь?- Всех, - ответил арестант, - злых людей нет на свете.)

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

~ Chris Burkmenn

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

~ Ruta Sepetys

How good life is when one does something good and just!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

~ Boethius

If we love unconditionally just like our Creator, we will awaken of the goodness in souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If only you could be yourself. they shouted. So, she did. You are not like me or anyone I have met! they screamed. So, she blended. You are so fake. they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others.

~ Angelica Hopes

To be good, is to be like God. Our purpose in life is to try and reach that standard. We will always fall short, but in our lifetime if we try our best to make a world where everyone is treated equally with respect, empathy, and compassion, the big payoff is that we will be rewarded with that exact thing in Heaven.

~ Lewis N. Roe

Kindness is still the best antidote.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there, it's there waiting to be noticed.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science? Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

~ Jacqueline Carey

When we see goodness in everything and everyone, we become good.

~ Debasish Mridha

Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

~ Desmond Tutu

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

~ Gautama Buddha

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

~ Ana Monnar

Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I don’t believe in a god, not in the traditional sense anyway. I guess that’s what being raised Catholic has done to me. But I do believe in energy. I do believe in right and wrong. I do believe in kindness and truth.

~ R.b. O'brien

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

~ Mark Andrew Poe

Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger, would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided, sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.

~ Steve Goodier

When God blesses you, the highest form of gratitude is open-handedness.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Giving is not favor, it's a form of self-reparation.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

We are all citizens of the world and we owe it to the world to make it a better place.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

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

~ Heather Wolf

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

~ Robin Caldwell

Kindness is all we have to give others

~ Kimberley Freeman

They truly embodied goodness and generosity – like angels sent to save me in my hour of greatest need. Mohammed had risked everything to keep a promise to my father. He and his family saved not only my life, but also my faith in others.

~ Zack Love

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

~ Lordbloodysoul

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

~ Anna Sewell

You will find two kinds of people in the world. Some say that there are the bad and the good. But it isn’t like that. Since what is good for one may be bad for another. No, that doesn’t work. You have to depend on your intuition.“There are those who make you feel inside as if you are drinking a good, warm soup – even if you are hungry and the two of you have nothing to eat. In spite of that they nourish you.“And then there are those who cause you to freeze inside, even if you are sitting before a roaring fire and have eaten your fill. Those you should keep away from. They are not good for you, even though others might say that they are good people…

~ Bodil Bredsdorff

Kind words are sweet to the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every good thing begins with one positive thought.

~ Bryant Mcgill