Quotes About Goodness

Being good does make a difference. You will not receive praise or payment for it, and other people will mistake your goodness for weakness, but it resonates among people you won't even meet.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.

Es gibt nichts Gutes außer: Man tut es. There is nothing good unless you do it.

Der Mensch ist gut, hat man gesagt. Nun, vielleicht ist das richtig. Doch man darf es ihm nicht zu leicht machen, dem guten Menschen. Sonst kann es plötzlich passieren, daß er schlecht wird.

He's afraid, Graber said. Yes, naturally. But he's a good dog. And a man-eater. We're all that. Why? We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship.

Never was there such a contrast of natural splendor and human vileness.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

He was a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his wickedness around with him transmuted into a sort of teasing gaiety. But he was a bad boy and the others knew it and he knew it. He was just being good while his badness grew inside him.

all good things come from what is inside you.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Kad divi cilv?ki m?l viens otru, kad vi?i ir laim?gi un jautri un viens vai abi rada kaut ko ?sti labu, vi?i pievelk cilv?kus, tieši t?pat k? spoža b?ka nakt? pievelk g?jputnus.

One day Mrs. Goodkind said, 'Pickles, you are not a bad cat. You are not a good cat. You are good and bad. And bad and good. You are a mixed-up cat. What you need is a good home. Then you will be good.'

You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.

Because God's reality is reality, there is no way to escape it. Because it is goodness itself, there is no way to defy it with anything but evil. When it comes to the politics of rebellion and change, the rebel can either seek to work in partnership with God's creation or find himself outside it and thus in hell.

Every good thing we know would be lost to darkness, all unremembered, if each had not been preserved for us by some sinner with a pen.

I]t is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.

In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.

Hace falta decirte, buen brujo, quiénes son las buenas personas? Son aquéllas a las que el destino les ha escatimado las ocasiones de disfrutar de las ventajas de ser malos. O aquéllas que sí han dispuesto de tales ocasiones, pero han sido demasiado estúpidas para aprovecharlas.

because I reckon you were still misled by false appearances not so long ago. what you took for goodness and integrity was rottenness hidden under a pretty mask. you're easy to deceive, witcher, because you don't look into motives. but I don't want to deceive you. so don't look at those women and children. . . don't take the dwarf who's standing in front of you asvvirtuous and noble. before you stands a thief, a robber and possibly even a murderer.

You can be certain I'll remember. In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.

In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.' 'That