Goodness Quotes

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

Good things are not done in a hurry.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.

If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.

A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.