Quotes About Goodness

The best people care, their goodness, civility, courtesy, and fairness, but not the bad ones.

The decent people are famous and known with their virtual decency, but not their shape or the dress.

You possess one piece of the "good." It would only be arrogance to think any of us should have it all.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

The good man," says Plato, "is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Senior came to learn that the Catholic Church respected the integrity and the goodness of the created order, and that her teachers would say, with Saint Thomas Aquinas, that the grace of God perfects nature rather than supplants it, and that all of our knowledge, including what we know about God himself, comes to us first through the senses.

To say to young people, "There are no such things, really, as beauty and goodness," is to do far worse than to fail to direct them out of the cave and into the sun. It is to cut out the hearts of those who might still be minded to make that pilgrimage. It is worse than to fail to direct the ship of the soul by the constant star of the North. It is to tear the tiller out of the ship entirely and leave it at the mercy of the winds, and to call the aimlessness "freedom.

An eternal life is a life that one lives according to his or her decree to ultimately be a fine human being, agreeing with the concept of goodness, foreseeing the dangers ahead either by prophesies or by anticipation and to serve our Heavenly Father unselfishly.

That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

difícilmente los tontos son del todo buenos. Y lo peor es que los inteligentes difícilmente lo quieren ser».

el que se ocupa demasiado en hacer el bien, no tiene tiempo de ser bueno».

The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother.

Mourn me with your efforts, with your hopes. Try simply to be good, to be what I have been among you: spirit. Live, life doesn't stop, the dead will die, the shadows pass; a man takes what he leaves, and one who has lived, lives on." -from "To Don Francisco Giner de los Rios

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Älä toivo minulle pahaa, toivo mielummin itsellesi hyvää.

A person has to have some madness to do goodness to the people.

A person is only as wise as he or she is nice only to the kind-hearted people.

A person who tries to prove own goodness upon being actually good only increases the feud with the people.