Quotes About Goodness

Our job on earth, as I see it, is to hold on through the hard parts and try and be a good person.

True goodness is like water. Water helps the ten thousand things without itself striving. Water flows down into the low places men despise, for water is in the Way

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Let us All make the whole WORLD a better place, pursue our dreams...bond LOVE to the spirit, embrace the young and old. LOVE... creates justice, peace and freedom. I believe humans are good at heart they are there to protect not destroy. We must help humankind to overcome human evil with hopeful aspirations, power to inspire and dream...find our own inner light where tomorrow belongs to a peaceful WORLD Marialuisa

Readers of these memoirs, know that I have never been very religious. I am not ashamed of this fact. I have endeavoured to be a good woman nonetheless, and to do good for those around me.

When you or your closed ones face danger, you'd tend to get closer to God and be good.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Being good doesn't mean you have to change the way you are. You just have to practice to be kind all the time.. Even if just a little kindness, because that little can have a multiple results, that can change the world.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Never hesitate to do things that are good, but never mistake that good things are solely to your own purposes.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Encouragement is telling the truth about the good you see in another person and wanting it to be recognized by that person.