Quotes About Goodness

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

My father is a very sweet man. He has led a very honest life. Perhaps it's the result of his goodness that I am doing well in my career.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.

I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors.

The Lord always comes first in our lives, and then everything else comes second. And so with my music and with my platform, I have places to talk about the Lord and His goodness.

When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think, 'Oh, I am a good guy. These other people are bad guys. They're dumb, I am smart.'