Quotes About Goodness

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

There are good characters and bad characters.

It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

He who's never loved cannot be good.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.