Quotes About Goodness

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.