Quotes About Goodness

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?" "Good for what?" asked the Doctor. "You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Ada tiga hal penting dalam hidup ini. Pertama adalah kebaikan hati. Kedua, kebaikan hati. Ketiga, kebaikan hati juga.

Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.

Ah darling, goodness, I think, never brought any one out. Goodness, when it's real, precisely, rather keeps people IN.

Don't you know the soul is an immortal principle? How can it suffer alteration? I don't believe at all that it's an immortal principle. I believe it can perfectly be destroyed. That's what has happened to mine, which was a very good one to start with; and it's you I have to thank for it. You're very bad, she added with gravity in her emphasis.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Irradiar bondad es maravilloso, porque es tónico, vigorizador, vivificador. Pero ser simplemente es más maravilloso todavía, porque es inacabable y no requiere demostración.

Be strong! Be good! Be pure! The right only shall endure; And all things else are but false pretenses.

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Yoga practice is therapeutic for the body and mind, reminds us of our goodness, energizes our creativity, and inspires.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

International regimes, international treaties, international norms are observed not because of the goodness of anybody but because they bring benefits. If they don't, then the longevity of those agreements come into jeopardy.

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

Before leaving the world, leave a profound positive mark of love upon the world.

Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, butreligious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.