“Be not simply good; be good for something.”Henry David Thoreau
Goodness Quotes
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Goodness Quotes
Read 66 famous goodness quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”Henry David Thoreau
“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”Franz Kafka
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”Dalai Lama
“Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.”Buddha
“Do not think lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me." Even by the falling of water drops a water-pot is filled.”Buddha
“The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, but the fragrance of good people travels even against the wind.”Buddha
“Avoid all evil, cultivate good, and purify your mind: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.”Buddha
“Hasten to do good.”Buddha
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
John Steinbeck
"To love is to will the good of the other."
Thomas Aquinas
"Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great: Conviction of the powers of goodness. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. Helping all who are trying to be and do good."Swami Vivekananda
"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."
Thomas Carlyle
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can.”
John Wesley
“Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.”Zoroaster
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
Billy Graham
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."Henry David Thoreau
"The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards."
Mencius
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
Mark Twain
"Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one's own advantage."
Dag Hammarskjold
"Goodness is the only value that seems in this world of appearances to have any claim to be an end in itself."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
David Grayson