Quotes About Goodness

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Good men must be affectionate men.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

No bad man can be a good poet.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.