Quotes About Goodness

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

The good man makes others good.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.