Goodness Quotes

Why do you not succeed in doing good? It's because you do not pray enough.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on, it's wrong.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Opportunities pass by as the passing of the clouds, thus seize the opportunities of goodness.

The good of the people is the chief law.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

That best portion of a good man's life — his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.