Memorable Goodness Quotes

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" goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
Dennis Prager
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
Leo Tolstoy
"Goodness is stronger than evil."
Desmond Tutu
"Goodness does not consist in doing great things, but in doing little things with kindness."
Mother Teresa
"The only way to do good is to be good."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Goodness is the fruit of righteousness."
Proverbs 11:30 (The Bible)
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"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
William Wordsworth
"Goodness is beauty in another form."
Anonymous
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
Plato
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself: of all things the most purely good."
Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Goodness is a perpetual evangelism."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Seek goodness and be goodness."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Real goodness is not costly. What does cost is the extra mile after that."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"But what is happiness except the simple goodness of a loving heart?"
Albert Camus
"Goodness is either the one rational excuse for living, or it's the supreme demonstration of an iron will to live."
Richard Powers
"It is only through giving our hearts that we discover that goodness is something that cannot be earned, only received."
Michael Hidalgo
"Goodness is an active, rather than a passive, state of mind."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
Seneca
"Goodness is to do what to be is; evil is to do what to become is."
John Ruskin
"No one is a complete anything. One is a good average of all the qualities, good and bad, combined."
Tennessee Williams
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"The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. "
Mahatma Gandhi
"Every single good act, every affirmation, every thought of kindness, builds up the endurance and potential of the Life Power."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Goodness is the only mortgage that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"A good man is hard to find."
Flannery O'Connor
"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
Dennis Prager
"The only way to do really great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
Charles Dickens
"A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
Saint Basil
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."
Heda Bejar
"What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good."
Aristotle
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does."
Roy T. Bennett
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself an idea."
Iris Murdoch
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"Goodness is not goodness unless it is persevering."
John Milton
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
"Goodness does not consist in great deeds, but in little things done with affection."
Mother Teresa
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
"Goodness is the active principle of love"
Thomas Traherne
"For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands."
Christina Rossetti
"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees."
Amelia Earhart
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Oscar Wilde
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."
Unknown
"Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
Dennis Prager
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"Goodness is easier to recognize than to define."
W. H. Auden
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Goodness is the active, energetic side of happiness. It is happiness discharging itself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
Alexander Pope
"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."
John Wesley
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Kahlil Gibran
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
Og Mandino
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
Henry James
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Samuel Johnson
"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness."
C.S. Lewis
"Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just."
Victor Hugo
"Genuine kindness is no ordinary act, but a gift of inexplicable beauty."
Vernon Howard
"We rise by lifting others."
Robert Ingersoll
"Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are."
Harold S. Kushner
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
Audrey Hepburn
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
William Shakespeare
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
Alexander the Great
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
William Wordsworth
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."
Dalai Lama
"Be good to other people. If only for selfish reasons."
HHA
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Scott Adams
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself; of itself, original and profound; and good is good."
John Milton
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
Anne Frank
"Goodness is sparked by a light in the darkness of human existence."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death."
Desmond Tutu
"For there is no virtue that it is not founded upon altruism!"
Auguste Comte
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are."
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
Aristotle
"Goodness is the active principle of all things."
Origen
"Acts of goodness are not always wise, and acts of evil are not always foolish, but on the whole, we shall all do better to have goodness guide us."
Bertrand Russell
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
Saint Basil
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
"We are born to be kind."
Buddha
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
John Holmes
"When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."
Benjamin Franklin
"Always be a little kinder than necessary."
James M. Barrie
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself: of all things the most indefinable, yet clearest to the souls that hold it of all things the most contagious, yet hardest to win…"
Winston Churchill
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
Barbara De Angelis
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