Quotes About Goodness

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.

I wanna be a nice guy.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.

I think everybody is born pure. You never go to the maternity ward and hold a baby that has bad energy.

Shyama was very good looking and a good human being. She was warm and affectionate.

Inherently I think the goodness in most people, we get a warm sense of satisfaction if we help someone, it makes you feel better.

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

Tess trembled so hard her teeth chattered. "So it is with the body," said the nun, eyes narrowing fiercely. "The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot. We fulfill our parents' direst prophecies, then curl around our own pain until we can't see beyond ourselves.

The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot.

Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.

When we recognize the spark of God in others, we blow on it with our attention and strengthen it. No matter how deeply it has been buried or for how long .... When we bless someone, we touch the unborn goodness in them and wish it well.

I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,

To console Pippin about the treachery of Gollum, Gandalf reminds him that "a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend" (3.89).

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

The problem is good has a limit, bad None!

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

God moves in power, in signs and wonders—healing the sick, in deliverances, multiplying food for the hungry, raising the dead—primarily for this reason: He is good! And it is His desire to reveal His goodness—His glory—in all the earth.