Goodness Quotes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

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

Nature is goodness crystallized.

Thoreau

All goodness comes from God.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

Muriel Spark

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Christopher Marlowe

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Euripides

Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.

John Milton

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

Philip Massinger

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

W H Auden

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

W Somerset Maugham

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Thoreau

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Euripides

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Beethoven

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Mary Baker Eddy

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

Seneca the Younger

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

Alistair Begg

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

Ellen Glasgow

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Pat Conroy

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

Eric Gill

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Martin Luther King Jr

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Seneca the Younger

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the fragrance of goodness.

Vincent McNabb

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Emerson

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Athenaeus

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Francis Bacon

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Leo Tolstoy

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

Gandhi

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.

Ron Kaufman

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech.

William Kean Seymour

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

Maria Montessori

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

Virginia Woolf

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Billy Graham

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

William Dean Howells

Goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness.

John Geddes

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Matthew Henry

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

Edmund Gibson

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 12:28

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life

John 5:29

Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 6:27

Return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Jeremiah 18:11

The Lord shall be with the good.

2 Chronicles 19:11

How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Galatians 4:18

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

Luke 18:19

And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

Luke 6:33

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Luke 6:43

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Matthew 12:35

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

3 John 1:11

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Proverbs 3:27

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Timothy 3:17

He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

Proverbs 16:20

Learn to maintain good works for necessary uses…be not unfruitful.

Titus 3:14

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Psalms 34:14

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

2 Thessalonians 16-17

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.

Hebrews 10:24

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalms 37:23

He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

Proverbs 19:8

He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour.

Proverbs 11:27

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Romans 12:9

But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good.

Romans 2:10

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live.

Amos 5:14

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

1 Peter 3:11

Hate the evil, and love the good.

Amos 5:15

Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psalms 37:3

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Romans 7:17-20

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:21

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Matthew 25:21

Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

Psalms 37:27

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Proverbs 20:6

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Psalms 107:9

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty.

Einstein

How far a little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Shakespeare

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Thoreau

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

Louisa May Alcott

What is your art? To be good.

Marcus Aurelius

A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.

Marcus Aurelius

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Thoreau