Good Sayings – Quotes About Goodness

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of good sayings and quotes on goodness from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”
– Aaron Eckhart

“Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.”
– Abu Bakr

“No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”
– Alan Alda

“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.”
– Albert Einstein

“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
– Aldous Huxley

“To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.”
– Ali Ibn Abi Talib

“Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.”
– Alphonsus Liguori

“Mornin’ ladies, my goodness don’t you look happy. Must be cuttin’ somebody up pretty good.”
– Andy Griffith

“I love the fact that there are also women out there that don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.”
– Ann Romney

“I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.”
– Anne Hathaway

“No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.”
– Anne Lamott

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
– Anne Rice

“That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.”
– Antonio Porchia

“Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.”
– Arthur Miller

“Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.”
– Athenaeus

“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.”
– Barbara Walters

“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
– Basil Hume

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”
– Bertolt Brecht

“A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.”
– Bhumibol Adulyadej

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
– Billy Graham

“My goodness, my hair’s been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.”
– Carly Fiorina

“I’m fighting a losing battle here: I’m trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that’s one of my biggest downfalls. I haven’t gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I’d probably be about 300 pounds.”
– Carrie Underwood

“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?”
– Cesar Chavez

“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.”
– Chanakya

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”
– Charles Baudelaire

“The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.”
– Charles Perrault

“If you tell God no because He won’t explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.”
– Charles Stanley

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama

“May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!”
– Daniel Boone

“I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.”
– Daniel Morgan

“I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: ‘My goodness. It’s a miracle that’s going on here. What could the human race do together?”‘
– David Miliband

“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
– Deepak Chopra

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