Quotes About Goodness

Be good. Do something good.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

We all must try to be good.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The real genres: good and bad.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.