Quotes About Goodness

A good man never dies.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

We are made kind by being kind.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.

Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.

A word spoken in good season, how good it is!

A little thing that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked.