Quotes About Goodness

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!

A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.