Quotes About Goodness

I had an enormous responsibility not just to survive but to become a good man because I had all of my family's hopes on my shoulders because they walked around outside without the shield that I carried knowing I hadn't done anything.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.

I just feel that if you're the best human being, God will bless you with success.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

I've never been a bad boy.

Once you leave your ego behind and let the good light in, you shine good light back. That may be a bit Buddhist but so what.

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I could never see Jeff Hardy as a bad guy, because I just want to hug him. He's an awesome person and super multi-talented.

I confess that I consider life to be a thing of the most untouchable deliciousness, and that even the confluence of so many disasters and deprivations, the exposure of countless fates, everything that insurmountably increased for us over the past few years to become a still rising terror cannot distract me from the fullness and goodness of existence that is inclined toward us.

Basically, if it is good, one can't live to see it recognized: otherwise it's just half good and not reckless enough...

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

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and beauty and goodness comes to each man directly, in flashes of spiritual light

The soul is what knows—and draws us towards—truth, beauty, and goodness. Moreover, for Emerson, each person's soul is only a part of the great, universal "over-soul." He describes the soul as a vast ocean, with our individual souls being tiny inlets into the shore. Individuality is an illusion—really, we're all connected, like fingers extending from one hand.

Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.

All my good is magnetic, and I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.