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Quotes About Goodness

I think good things come to good people.
~ Derrick Rose
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.
~ Ibn Ata Allah
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~ Jesse Jackson
Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.
~ John Wesley
We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.
~ Carroll Eugene Simcox
Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.
~ Alan Cohen
We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
~ P. T. Barnum
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
~ C. S. Lewis
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
~ Thomas Lickona
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
~ Sidney Poitier
I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.
~ Elle Macpherson
Good people don't go to Heaven, forgiven people do.
~ Lecrae
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
~ Richard Wagner
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
~ Sappho
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
~ Ruth St. Denis
Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.
~ Marcus Aurelius