Browsing Topic Best Goodness Quotes

The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.

Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you.

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

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation…nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion…singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God’s grace and goodness.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Do your little bit of good where you are.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

I close my eyes, think positive thoughts, and breathe goodness in and out

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour’s crucifixion.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God’s goodness.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

You’ll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that’s to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

True goodness springs from a man’s own heart. All men are born good.

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.