Quotes About Goodness

A person, who yearns to have only happiness, joy, pleasure, enjoyment and fun and preaches about these things mostly to the people, is not at all a good one to anyone.

A wise speaks the voice of his soul and the same sounds like noise to the wicked.

Be actually good towards others. practically none would support him even from his neighborhood; Pretend to be a good person, a lot of people would feign to support him in all likelihood provided they find him wealthy or a source to earn their livelihood.Such is the high level of hypocrisy, sycophancy, selfishness-driven stupidity in our society

There is perhaps no one who is punished more than a person who is truly good to the people.

When a person is truly good, most people hate only to his face but behind him appreciate; if one is not good but has a lot of money, then others openly praise on his face but irascibly criticize him on his back.

a man life is from womb to tomb,so be good and good to people and be be happy untill you live on earth

To the pure, all things are pure.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd....

How did it get so late so soon?" he wrote. "It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

Since the objects of imitation are men in action, and these men must be either of a higher or a lower type (for moral character mainly answers to these divisions, goodness and badness being the distinguishing marks of moral differences), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right . . . Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

The source of morality must be moral.

Mandela had a conviction that only goodness could win in a moral struggle. He believed that even under unjust persecution, people should treat others with kindness and respect, that anything less was a failing of his own character.

In his Summa Theologica, Saint Thomas Aquinas said, "To love is to will the good of the other."10 The modern philosopher Michael Novak refines this further by adding two words: "To love is to will the good of the other as other" (emphasis mine).11 He continues: "Love is not sentimental, nor restful in illusions, but watchful, alert, and ready to follow evidence. It seeks the real as lungs crave air.

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.