Quotes About Goodness

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

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

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

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.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.