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Quotes About Goodness

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.
~ Laozi
A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.
~ Robert South
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
~ A. J. Jacobs
God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you're doing that then you're succeeding.
~ Amy Poehler
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
~ Andrew Solomon
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
~ Antonia Fraser
You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.
~ Aya Cash
Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
~ Bertolt Brecht
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.
~ Blaise Pascal
I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.
~ Boi-1da
It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.
~ Cassandra Clare
I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do.
~ Cate Edwards
The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
~ Charles Bukowski
Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.
~ Cher
There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.
~ Cheryl James
Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.
~ Dalai Lama
If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
~ Dalai Lama
The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.
~ Danielle LaPorte