Quotes About Goodness

God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.

free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

Shifting our awareness to what is pleasant and beautiful and good is deeply affirming. It taps into the fundamental goodness of life

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.

Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.