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Quotes About Goodness

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
~ Dennis Prager
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~ Georg Brandes
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
~ Louis Auchincloss
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
~ Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Do your little bit of good where you are.
~ Desmond Tutu
Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Kindness is virtue itself.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
~ Sophocles
Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
~ Gautama Buddha
Your greatness is measured by your kindness.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
~ Mother Teresa
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
~ Krista Tippett
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kindness is the essence of greatness.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
~ R. J. Palacio
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
~ William Penn
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
~ Homer
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
~ Charlotte Gray
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
~ Francis Bacon