goodness quotes

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The good is the beautiful.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.