Quotes About Goodness

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.