Quotes About Goodness

For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.

There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

It is strange,' the bird said. 'It is very cold, but I feel quite warm.' 'That is because you have done a good thing,' said the prince.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.

Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Cuando somos felices siempre somos buenos, pero cuando somos buenos no siempre somos felices

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become a public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

Kiedy jeste?my szcz??liwi, zawsze jeste?my dobrzy, ale kiedy jeste?my dobrzy, nie zawsze jeste?my szcz??liwi.

I admit that i think it is better to be beautiful then to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready to admit then i, it is better to be good then ugly.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self

By? dobrym, to znaczy by? w harmonii z samym sob?. Dysonans to w tym przypadku przymus pozostania w harmonii z innymi.

When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.

Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Modesty, if one may trust to the verdict of the mass of mankind, is a good quality. It sweetens the soul and makes for a kindly understanding of one's fellows.

Y es esta la moral de mi Oda: Dos veces es belleza la belleza, y lo que es bueno es doblemente bueno, cuando se trata de dos calcetines de lana en el invierno.

You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.

Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture and a man will walk into it. If you can bear him even a little, then for a while let him stay.

The goodness of one man is more powerful than the wickedness of a thousand. Evil dies with the evil: goodness continues to live on long after the good are gone. As the sun that disperses the cloud and returns joy to earth, Barba Yani replaced the sickness in my soul with health. This did not happen without resistance on my part; I strongly opposed his efforts. But whose heart, even one as tortured by life as mine had been, could have ultimately repelled his extraordinary goodness?