Goodness Quotes

The Master said, I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteemnothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practicevirtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is notvirtuous to approach his person.Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I havenot seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient.Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it.

~ Confucius

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.

~ Confucius

Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness.

~ Plato

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

~ F.h. Bradley

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

~ Bob Hicok

Life was small but good. (15)

~ Francesca Lia Block

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

~ Colum Mccann

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

~ Megan Jacobson

Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.

~ Gwenda Bond

Don’taccept good things from bad people.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.

~ Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma'arri

Goodness follows goodness, all in God’s time.

~ Ron Baratono

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

~ Thomas Mann

Authentic acts of goodness set you free, they don't enslave you.

~ Kathy Jo Nicholson

You’re the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You’re the light people crawl through darkness for. You’re the good that balances out all the bad.

~ Jeannine Allison

We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is looking up to us as we take each breath. We can be just a grape or we can be the juice that offers simplicity, nourishment and refreshment. Extract and empty your goodness. Pass it into the hearts of the people looking up to you. It will multiply beyond your highest good.

~ Angie Karan

There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.

~ C.s. Lewis

She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.

~ Han Kang

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.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

~ Edmund White

Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.

~ Gugu Mona

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

So why not make it better? If we want to see goodness in our lives, we should make it happen. If I can bring just a little help to someone's life, even for a moment, it's better than doing nothing at all.

~ Davon M. Custis

When you help other people you also help yourself it's impossible to not feel good when you do good for other people

~ Dalia

You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.

~ Diyar Harraz

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

~ Marissa Meyer

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

~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall

It is true that there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, but intimately connected with love and forgiveness, faith and hope, that can fill our minds and hearts with positive energy- we can overcome head on, any obstacle or hardship we may encounter.

~ Angie Karan

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

~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Sadness makes you notice the goodness.

~ Emily Huffstetler

The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.

~ Amit Abraham

Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together

~ Phil Mitchell

At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us. When he took grandmother's hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, 'Good woman!' He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. 'The prayers of all good people are good,' he said quietly.

~ Willa Cather

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.

~ John Adams

Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.

~ Rachel Held Evans

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don’t know what to make of it.

~ Anne Brontë

The seed of good reaps the harvest of goodness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What else could it be but to live life fully— to pay out goodnesslike the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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

~ Karen Swallow Prior