Goodness Quotes


A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. St. Basil Goodness 322
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart. Confucius Goodness 272
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow. Sappho Goodness 162
Being good is easy what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo Goodness 148
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. W.H. Auden Goodness 146
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn. Chinese Proverbs Goodness 137
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Henry Ford Goodness 122
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. Emily Bronte Goodness 116
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Sir Walter Raleigh Goodness 108
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. John Milton Goodness 102
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Beatrix Potter Goodness 93
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley Goodness 93
Youve a good heart. Sometimes thats enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly its not. Neil Gaiman Goodness 93
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. Bertolt Brecht Goodness 91
Mitleid mit den Thieren hngt mit der Gte des Charakters so genau zusammen da man zuversichtlich behaupten darf wer gegen Thiere grausam ist knne kein guter Mensch seyn. Arthur Schopenhauer Goodness 89
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Goodness 88
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. Immanuel Kant Goodness 87
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. Ralph Waldo Emerson Goodness 85
To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. Mahatma Gandhi Goodness 85
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. Tryon Edwards Goodness 84
O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred. Source Unknown Goodness 84
Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto. Michel de Montaigne Goodness 83
Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Friedrich von Schiller Goodness 83
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none. William Graham Sumner Goodness 83
In this earthly world ... to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly. William Shakespeare Goodness 83
The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured. William Makepeace Thackeray Goodness 83
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice. Martial Goodness 82
No said Gould with an unusual and convincing gravity I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry. Well said Michael quietly will you tell me one thing Which of us has ever tried it G.K. Chesterton Goodness 82
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch Goodness 81
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. NiccolÃ² Machiavelli Goodness 81
Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination. Sir Joshua Reynolds Goodness 80
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb Goodness 80
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell Goodness 79
To be good is noble. To tell people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble. Mark Twain Goodness 79
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine Goodness 78
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot Goodness 78
We are members of one great body planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. Seneca Goodness 78
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. Robert Louis Stevenson Goodness 78
All religions are good in principle but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. Paul Karl Feyerabend Goodness 77
And this is the eternal law. For Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it but Good never. Charles Dickens Goodness 77
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Saul Bellow Goodness 77
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. Harriet Beecher Stowe Goodness 76
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will. FranÃ§ois de La Rochefoucauld Goodness 76
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions! Jean de La BruyÃ¨re Goodness 76
The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. Jan Van Ruysbroeck Goodness 75
... so important to believe in a concept of goodness even if we make it up ourselves. We dont really make it up. its there isnt it Oh yes its there she said. Its there because we put it there. Anne Rice Goodness 75
Mans glory lies not Lincoln thought in his goodness for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory instead from his being made in the image of the Living God. Joe L. Wheeler Goodness 75
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. Aristotle Goodness 75
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good, we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. Tryon Edwards Goodness 74
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. Confucius Goodness 74

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