Quotes About Goodness

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you—until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire—until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others—you will be neither successful nor happy.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

La luz del día, aunque entra muy poca en el sombrío salón, forma parte de la bendición universal que borra el mal, hace posible el bien y la felicidad.

As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all.

I think you're decent.' 'Maybe, maybe not. One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have—people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

But it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?

I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.

O Beauty! dost thou generate from Heaven or from Hell? Within thy glance, so diabolic and divine, Confusedly both wickedness and goodness dwell, And hence one might compare thee unto sparkling wine.

She has hurt fewer people than anybody I know, and if you look at it like that, well, she has created a better world, she has won.

After all, anyone can love people who are lovely.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever

he has discovered that the will of God is not to hate, not to torture, not to cast away from his presence, but to restore his creatures to goodness, that he may thereby restore them to usefulness.  David has discovered that God demands no sacrifice, much less self-torturing penance.  What he demands is the heart.  The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit.  A broken and a contrite heart he will not despise. 

resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the

Nor did she merely smile, she glowed with inner goodness that made him think of the vast iron cookstove in his grandmother's kitchen back on the farm. Here, he knew by certain instinct, was a woman who made wonderful cookies and would give you some.

she would convince herself that she wasn't destined for Hell because in all other ways she led a good life. An exemplary life. And though she understood that works alone could not buy one's salvation, the fact that she wanted so desperately to behave well was a favorable indication.

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

Lord, thank You," Elizabeth whispered. "Thank You for Your mercy and Your goodness. Thank You for answering. And help me focus on the things I can see You doing instead of the things I can't see.

the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained. This dichotomy, although not on the level of Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Nazi Germany, is nevertheless present in American culture and getting worse. The gap between who we are and who we think we are is steadily expanding.

He was well aware, like Hugo, that good people were usually relentlessly persecuted, were rarely rewarded for virtue, and that those who held fast to truth and justice often found the way to their own cross.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Compassion is the basis of morality.