Goodness Quotes

1767 Goodness quotes by 1077 unique authors

Evil is only good perverted. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to… — Mencius
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's… — Robert Breault
I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us. — Brian Behlendorf
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter. — Seneca the Younger
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. — W. Somerset Maugham
God's glory is His goodness. — Henry Ward Beecher
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another. — Henry Ward Beecher
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ... — Andy Rooney
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as… — Saadi
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope
When good men die their goodness does not perish. — Euripides
Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. — John Milton
Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. — Blaise Pascal
God made thee good as thou art beautiful. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. — Franz Kafka
Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its… — Hannah Arendt
Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. — William Saroyan
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! — Maxim Gorky
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He… — Oswald Chambers
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. — William Least Heat-Moon
It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who… — George W. Bush

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