Quotes About Goodness

I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fibre of my being. A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best as he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

No specification is necessary—to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it for ever.

I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.

spend most of his time so that he may glorify God by doing good for others, and getting of good for himself." The Lord, quite conveniently, smiled

My lot is that I must be the first decent human being

My father once told me that a great man walks the back roads. He does what's right every day and no one knows it but those lucky enough to be loved by him.

Satanás no tiene miedo de que los cristianos hagan cosas buenas; él solamente teme que hagan la voluntad de Dios.

A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good. A foolish man tries to be good and is therefore not good.

You'll only give away what you have in your heart, and

Gather as much virtue as you possibly can.

in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart…. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.

treat everyone, without exception, with goodness and kindness, as all of those whom we revere as spiritual masters taught us by their example.

trust in the perfect goodness of the Tao to guide me, direct me, and take me where it will.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

I think each of us who deals in any way with things which are creative and things which are going to be read or looked at or heard by the public, needs always to test himself by the eighth verse in the fourth chapter of Philippians: 'Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.