Quotes About Goodness

God is just and good, and ever does that which is right.

Jednocze?nie po niebosk?onie przelatuje druga gwiazda: przepe?nione nadziej? i mi?o?ci? ostrze, tn?ce czarne niebo. Jest ono jak odpowied? na samotn? modlitw?. Zdaje si? mówi?: w ?yciu s? nadzieje, marzenia, dobro?.

Sería de justicia recordar que, en tiempos de oscuridad, siempre hubo hombres buenos que lucharon por traer a sus compatriotas las luces y el progreso... Y que no faltaron quienes procuraban impedirlo.

Como acaba de leer el señor secretario, se trata de elegir entre nuestros compañeros a dos hombres buenos.

En eso, como muchos mexicanos, Huerta es injusto —opinó—. Gran parte de lo que se ha hecho de bueno lo hicieron los españoles. Incluso a pesar de las antiguas crueldades y la codicia actual.

The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.

I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

But if my acts are good, sincerely intended, Then no matter where I turn my steps, The merit gained will honor me With its resulting benefits.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Grace is when your kindness and your character are radiant through your action

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Atravesó capas y capas de sufrimiento humano. Y encontró que la gente más martirizada era la más buena y noble. Pero encontró también que esta bondad y esta nobleza estaban tan degradadas y envilecidas que eran una cosa inútil y que, a menos que se rebelaran violentamente, seguirían siendo siempre una cosa inútil.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

And we must not have the feeling of arrogance when indulging in the acts of charity, for if one does any good thing for others with the sense of the 'doer-ship' one loses all merit, according to the ancient Indian thought. Chanakya has merely repeated the same thought.]

Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature, the inclination. This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

The inclination to goodness, is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, a cruel people, who nevertheless are kind to beasts, and give alms, to dogs and birds; insomuch, as Busbechius reporteth, a Christian boy, in Constantinople, had like to have been stoned, for gagging in a waggishness a long-billed fowl.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

I want to see the next Reagan. I want somebody who brings out the good in Americans and challenges us to aspire to that North Star, someone who wants to empower our families and individuals and communities and let them be free to achieve their dreams. That's what's going to make this country again.

I'm definitely not a bad guy in real life.