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Quotes About Goodness

Live life in a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, and fairness. Love, Kind words and Deeds do not cost anything.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Try to be a good person, because you think it's the right thing to do. If you commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I believe most people are good, even if only deep down But what matters is the one thing I do know for certain God is with me.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Be led by the dreams in your heart. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. And be the reason someone smiles.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There is something good in every day. With positive thinking we can make every day good.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself.
~ James Joyce
Hell wasn't made for people; God doesn't want anyone to go there. But he is utter goodness—absolute holiness—and evil cannot be in his presence. Without
~ James L. Garlow
because in her heart it was proof that God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.
~ James McBride
None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. ROMANS 3:10–12
~ James Montgomery Boice
You have a good heart, Tommy
~ James Patterson
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.
~ Lucy Larcom
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
~ Hans Jonas
I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.
~ Lily James
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
~ William Ames
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.
~ James D'arcy
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.
~ Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.
~ Charles Eliot Norton
The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.
~ Marcia Hines
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.
~ George W. Bush
We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.
~ George W. Bush