“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MannersKindness
Good Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GOOD
Good Quotes
Read the best good quotes on goodness, kindness and doing good from Mencius, Kant, Tolstoy, Tagore, Shakespeare, the Bible and more. Words to inspire good deeds.
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Henry David Thoreau
ChangeAction
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
Good LifeFunny
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Oscar Wilde
PeopleFunny
“If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”
William Shakespeare
QualityWisdom
“It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.”
William Shakespeare
Practise What You PreachIntegrity
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”
William Shakespeare
Tough LoveKindness
“Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:68)
GoodnessPrayer
“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:12)
MarriageLoyalty
“The desire of a man is his kindness.”
The Bible (Proverbs 19:22)
KindnessCharacter
“Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:18)
WisdomWarning
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.”
The Bible (Isaiah 5:20)
TruthWarning
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”
The Bible (Philippians 2:4)
Caring For OthersSelflessness
“For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.”
The Bible (1 Peter 2:15)
Good DeedsCritics
“As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards.”
The Bible (1 Peter 4:10)
TalentsService
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.”
The Bible (James 1:27)
CompassionFaith
“And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 6:18)
Doing RightFaith
“Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.”
The Bible (Romans 15:2)
NeighboursEncouragement
“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.”
The Bible (Psalm 92:1)
GratitudeFaith
“For every creature of God is good.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 4:4)
CreationGoodness
“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.”
The Bible (Hebrews 10:24)
EncouragementGood Deeds
“And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?”
The Bible (1 Peter 3:13)
CourageGoodness
“Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee.”
The Bible (Psalm 31:19)
GoodnessFaith
“He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour.”
The Bible (Proverbs 11:27)
RewardEffort
“A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord.”
The Bible (Proverbs 12:2)
BlessingCharacter