Best Goodness Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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.

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

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.

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.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I’m fighting a losing battle here: I’m trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that’s one of my biggest downfalls. I haven’t gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I’d probably be about 300 pounds.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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

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

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

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.

A good man’s life is all of a piece.

Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.