"We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project."Yusef Komunyakaa
Goodness Quotes
66 FAMOUS QUOTES · GOODNESS
Goodness Quotes
Read 66 famous goodness quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"It costs you something to do good!"Zora Neale Hurston
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."Marcus Aurelius
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."Plato
"Wisdom restrains the mind from wandering where it wills, turns it away from evil, and guides it toward the good."
Thiruvalluvar
"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."Dalai Lama
"To the one who sows thorns in your path, sow flowers in his."
Kabir
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
Leo Tolstoy
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."Plato
"The world exists because of people of good character; without them it would crumble into dust."
Thiruvalluvar
"Whatever be the religion, it suffices if it makes a better man."
Sree Narayana Guru
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
Desmond Tutu
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
Albert Einstein
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."Thomas Paine
"Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."Zoroaster
"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
"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."Rabindranath Tagore
"Be good, do good."
Swami Sivananda
"We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness."
Desmond Tutu
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."Thomas Paine
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”Thomas Paine
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.”Socrates
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”Socrates
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”Plato