Quotations About Goodness

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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness. – Michel de Montaigne

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good. – Seneca

Be the kind of person that you want to meet. – Unknown

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people. – Roy T. Bennett

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. –  Charles Dickens

Goodness comes from inside of you. It is your energy and make up. When given away, it leads to greatness. – Unknown

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world. – William Shakespeare

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. – Leo Tolstoy

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. – Anne Frank

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people. – Roy T. Bennett

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. – Aeschylus

If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread. – Filipino Wisdom

Whenever you share the goodness in your heart, you always end up winning because life is an echo. It gives back what you have given. – Unknown

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. – Walt Whitman

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. – Ernest Renan

When a person tells others ‘Be good,’ he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not. – Meher Baba

Which would you rather be if you had the choice-divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? – L. M. Montgomery

Goodness is love in action. – James Hamilton

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. – Roy T. Bennett

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. – Bryant H. McGill

Goodness is better than beauty. – Vietnamese Wisdom

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. – Socrates

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. – Henry David Thoreau

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. – Unknown

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it always. – Mahatma Gandhi

Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light. – Unknown

Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself. – Unknown

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. – Billy Graham

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. – Marcus Aurelius

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself. – Wes Fesler

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. – The Bhagavad Gita

Be good and you will be lonesome. – Mark Twain

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. – Billy Graham

There can be goodness without much intelligence – but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. – Robert Green Ingersoll

There are three values: Feel good, be good, and do good. – Yogi Bhajan

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. – Chanakyu

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. – Marcus Aurelius

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. – Stephen King

Never let a bad person change your inner goodness. – Karen Salmansohn

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. – William Hazlitt

The good is the end toward which all things tend. –  Boethius

Virtue is bold. And goodness never fearful. – Shakespeare

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! – J.K. Rowling