Goodness Quotes

Goodness is nature. evil is learned.

— Ranex Ranex

“A sandalwood tree perfumes its ax.”

— Sylvia Whitman

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

— Marcus Aurelius

How goodness heightens beauty!

— Milan Kundera

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

— Henry George Bohn

Real kindness seeks no return.

— Thiruvalluvar

“Goodness is good.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I write to believe in goodness.”

— Red Haircrow

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.

— Pope Francis

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

— Menander

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

— Jonathan Swift

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

— Socrates

“God's grace is everything we need. The seed of all goodness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If there is a God he has to be good. If he is not good then he's not God.

— Mike Messerli

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

— Cormac McCarthy

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical…

— Twinkle Khanna

“He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them…

— Lauren Groff

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully…

— Anonymous

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something…

— Marcus Aurelius

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

— Julian of Norwich

“We each have words for "love" in our languages. What would the world look like if we acted on that one word…

— Julie Saffrin

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to…

— Henri Nouwen

The world teaches us that if it is too good to be true that it probably is. As Christians, we have renew…

— Sashauni Aaeliyae

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room…

— Phil Anselmo

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that…

— Walt Whitman

I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little…

— Kylie Minogue

The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to…

— Albert Schweitzer

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better…

— Anthony Burgess

I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined…

— Giancarlo Esposito

“You are at the same time, a god and a demon. When the god in you lacks nourishment, the demon gets hold…

— Abhijit Naskar

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between…

— Ernest Renan

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries,…

— Sydney J. Harris

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my…

— Albert Schweitzer

There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,…

— Muhammad

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I can just about enjoy it. There is an initial hurdle, where I feel like, oh goodness me, I'm going to watch…

— Jesse Armstrong

It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human…

— Mencius