Quotes About Goodness

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

I never feel insecure about my career because I believed that in some way or other, good things come to you. This might be the only reason that I never take pride in stardom or a celebrity status.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

Certainly in 'Stella' there weren't really any baddies. And if there were, they were quite ineffectual baddies. And the same is true of 'Gavin & Stacey.' I like people to be redeemed.

Good, but not religious-good.

True asceticism is not the rejection of the world, but the acceptance of everything that is good, beautiful, and true. It is learning how to use our faculties and the good things of this world as God's gifts rather than expressions of selfishness.

When we taste the goodness of God and experience the humility that arises spontaneously from that relationship, the programs glorified by the false self and our cultural conditioning diminish in size and no longer exercise the fascination that used to hold them in place.

By consenting to God's creation, to our basic goodness as human beings, and to the letting go of what we love in this world, we are brought to the final surrender, which is to allow the false self to die and the true self to emerge. The true self might be described as our participation in the divine life manifesting in our uniqueness.

Integrity reveals beauty.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

O mundo é meu país, os humanos são meus irmãos e fazer o bem é minha religião.

All dogs wanted to be good dogs, no matter how unpromising they seemed. You just had to help them find a way. And they were sunshine creatures. When their master opened his eyes in the morning it was their signal that the day had begun, and a day was to be greeted with joy and intense interest. They were a good example for an old man.

To say that God's goodness may be different in kind from man's goodness, what is it but saying, with a slight change of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good?" —John Stuart Mill