Quotes About Goodness

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.