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Quotes About Goodness

It is the duty of the householder not to pay reverence to the wicked; because, if he reverences the wicked people of the world, he patronizes wickedness; and it will be a great mistake if he disregards those who are worthy of respect, the good people. He must not be gushing in his friendship; he must not go out of the way making friends everywhere; he must watch the actions of the men he wants to make friends with, and their dealings with other men, reason upon them, and then make friends.
~ Vivekananda
That's the trouble with a Trueheart House. It doesn't believe in being cautious when it comes to defeating evil.
~ Unknown
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
~ Voltaire
You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.
~ W. Clement Stone
God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.
~ W. Clement Stone
And we are introduced to Goodness every day, Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; He has a name like Billy and is almost perfect, But wears a stammer like a decoration.
~ W. H. Auden
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
~ Unknown
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
~ Unknown
For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.
~ W.B. Yeats
From Archaeology one moral, at least, may be drawn, to wit, that all our school text-books lie. What they call History is nothing to vaunt of,' being made, as it is, by the criminal in us: goodness is timeless.
~ W.H. Auden
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
~ Andy Rooney
Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.
~ Pope Francis
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.
~ Bob Marley
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
~ William H. Macy
It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
~ Pablo Casals
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished
~ Nelson Mandela
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
~ Charles Dickens
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
~ Augustus Hare
All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage
~ Dennis Prager
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
~ Joseph Addison
Remember two matters and forget two matters; 1. Remember Allah (SWT) and death. 2. Forget any good that you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another
~ Luqman