Quotes About Goodness

The white flower of a blameless life.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

I know the heart of life is good.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

We have life, but this does not mean we are better people. In fact, we must struggle even more than mortals do to remain good. How easy it is for goodness to have no meaning when punishment, retribution- or hell- have no meaning. It makes as much sense for Eleanor to choose thrill-seeking or Samuel to choose murder as it does for you and me to choose love and family.

Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

Anything good, honorable, and desirable in life is based on love. Anything bad or evil is simply life without the love involved.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.

Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil." Richard: "Good will triumph over evil." Ellie: "Liar.

Politics isn't about power, control or manipulation. It's about serving up your very best. You don't understand the power you have until you use it. Helping other people brings out the good in everybody. When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.

And without good feelings about herself, she could not feel close to the goodness of the Mother.