Quotes About Goodness

You are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic: I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve.

The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. I

Lucy no carece de juicio, y ése es el fundamento sobre el que se puede construir todo lo que es bueno.

Unfortunately, the media devotes so much space to covering all of the bad, hateful things that are going on and not enough to reporting about all the goodness and kindness that's out there.

And there's another thing, Doug. Just as only we are capable of true evil," Jane said, "I think only we are capable of true altruism.

Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good.

stand up against it. And even when they lose their lives, their voices still resonate long after they are gone, giving us inspiration and hope—hope in the ultimate goodness of this strange, conflicted human animal that evolved from an apelike creature some six million years ago.

My goodness," my mother said, reading the label. "It's a tenderloin." "I just got it in," Randy said. "It's corn-fed, and it's got real good marbling. I know everybody's always talking about grass-fed beef, but if you ask me it's shoe leather. Give me a cow that's been shoved into a pen with a thousand other cows and forced to eat grain, and I'll show you a darn good pot roast.

You're like Jesus," Susie said, more positively now that she had said the words out loud. "He doesn't like it when people be bad either. An' He doesn't like to send them away—out of heaven. But it would spoil heaven for everybody else if He let bad people in there." Wynn said nothing, but his eyes looked misty as he reached out to tousle the little black head on his way to the bedroom for his slippers.

There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that accompanied his unprecedented accomplishments and successes.

I believe in my children. I believe in human beings. I believe in the goodness that is in human beings. I believe in many, many things that I cannot prove. I believe that there's the world of the seen and the world of the unseen.

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.