Quotes About Goodness

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.