Goodness Quotes

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness, ’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Be good and you will be lonesome.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

It is only goodness which gives extra...

If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.