Quotes About Goodness

Education is not about enacting a prescriptive, boxed sort of curriculum-based classroom, but instead is about passing on a legacy of a love for learning, an independent joy in discovery, a motivation to bring light, beauty, and goodness back into the world of our children.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

It cannot be from any worthiness in our prayers, which are in themselves polluted things. But it is because God delights in mercy and condescension. He is herein infinitely distinguished from all other Gods. He is the great fountain of all good, from whom goodness flows as light from the sun.2 —JonaThan edwards

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

This is why the clergyman is so often called a vicar—he being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge. 

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Good men must be affectionate men.

There is no goodness in our will now, but what it hath from grace.

Faith is exceeding charitable, and believeth no evil of God.

A person who aspires to goodness will come to useful realizations.

As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours waft from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds.

Si el demonio supiera amar, dejaría de ser malvado

For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be

The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view; The good man will in time be gorgeous, too.

He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.

rikkaus ilman hyvettä on vaarallista; mutta molempien yhtymisestä seuraa korkein onni

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

A man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but a good man at once takes on beauty.

Wie mooi is, is mooi zolang je kijkt, wie mooi en goed is, zal mooi blijven.

Now that he wasn't trying to be frightening, Terrell's good nature shone, and he grinned as he smashed up my truck.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.