Quotes About Goodness

Every good and valuable thing you do in life, makes your world a better place to be.

I have always lived a very blessed life, but being a good person has always boosted my fortune.

Is just being a good person enough? No, you have to benefit everyone you meet. Even if they hurt you. Never stop making the world a better place.

I wonder if being a good person really pays off. I wonder what it will take for you to put me first and care for me.

I think my downfall is being a good person, to the wrong people...but life experiences tell me to keep showing love, in the midst of hate.

For one to be a good believer of any beliefs, one must start with being a good person first.

I try to see the good in everyone and try to be as nice as I can be but being a good person makes people think that you can get away with things.

You are the friend of all because of your merits. A good person embellished with good thoughts becomes the friend or benefactor of all. Such a person influences others, because of his positive personality traits and attracts them and as a result, he befriends all.

What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

A good person only is worthy of a high position and can become the king of a nation.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

You always have to try to understand: Is it a good person who just made a bad decision. In most cases, that's what it is, a good person who made a bad decision. Then you try to ascertain what that means.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Morning doesn't mean getting up & working, It means God loves you so much that he lets you live another day to do more good things.

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.

I had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to carry the belief with me to my grave.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.