Goodness Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

49 Goodness Quotes
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“Be good and you will be lonesome”
Mark Twain Quotes
“I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me”
Woody Allen Quotes
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can”
John Wesley Quotes
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“All good things are wild, and free.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: on the town hall of Zittau, Saxony
“Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius) Quotes
Source: Meditations (ch. VII)
“What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes
Source: The Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 273)
“Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Essays--Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
“For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.”
George Linnaeus Banks Quotes
Source: What I Live For
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
George Linnaeus Banks Quotes
Source: What I Live For
“And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.”
Bible Quotes
Source: John (ch. I, v. 46)
“The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.”
Robert Blair Quotes
Source: The Grave (pt. II, l. 586)
“One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.”
Rupert Brooke Quotes
Source: Heaven
“There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Abt Vogler (IX)
“No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Source: Essays--Novalis
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. VI)
“This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: De Amicitia (XIII)
“Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Oratio Pro Quinto Ligario (XII)
“What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Oratio Pro Sextio Roscio Amerino (XXX), quoted from Lucius Cassius' "Second Philippic"