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.

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.

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.

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.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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.

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

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

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.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

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

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

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. … One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.