Quotes About Goodness

If you are joyful by your own nature – not because of what is happening around you – then if you really want to have a tag of a good human being, you can take it, but I would say it is better you are a joyful human being, not a good human being.

Blicke in dein Inneres! Im Innern ist die Quelle des Guten, eine unversiebare Quelle, wenn du immer nachgräbst.

rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Kindness is invincible.

Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you'll be no one, nowhere—like Hadrian, like Augustus. The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

How cruel—to forbid people to want what they think is good for them. And yet that's just what you won't let them do when you get angry at their misbehavior. They're drawn toward what they think is good for them. —But it's not good for them. Then show them that. Prove it to them. Instead of losing your temper.

My soul, will you ever be good, simple, individual, bare, brighter than the body that covers you? Will you ever taste the disposition to love and affection? Will you ever be complete and free of need, missing nothing, desiring nothing live or lifeless for the enjoyment of pleasure?

It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

Dig inside yourself. Inside there is a spring of goodness ready to gush at any moment if you keep digging.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.

My soul, will you ever be good, simple, individual, bare, brighter than the body covers you? Will you ever taste the disposition to love and affection? Will you ever be complete and free of need, missing nothing, desiring nothing live or lifeless for the enjoyment of pleasure?

Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose. To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back. What else could it be but to live life fully— to pay out goodness like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.

Repentance is a kind of self-reproof for having neglected something useful; but that which is good must be something useful, and the perfect good man should look after it. But no such man would ever repent of having refused any sensual pleasure. Pleasure then is neither good nor useful.

Don't live as though you were going to live a myriad years. Fate is hanging over your head; while you have a life, while you may, become good.

whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight

Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men.

Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself.