Browsing Topic Best Goodness Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

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

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

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

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

It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of goodness, kindness, and day-to-day decency that goes unnoticed and makes no headlines.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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.

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.

O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.

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.

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?

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.

In every moment of your day, there are two paths before you. Take the path of goodness, for goodness’ sake.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

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

God’s grace, quite simply, is God’s mercy and goodness toward us.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

The greatest achievement is selflessness.The greatest worth is self-mastery.The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.The greatest precept is continual awareness.The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.The greatest generosity is non-attachment.The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.The greatest patience is humility.The greatest effort is not concerned with results.The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn’t go around criticizing the goodness of others. There’s no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don’t believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They’re like blind people who don’t believe there’s such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don’t believe, because they’re blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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.