Quotes about Goodness

“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.”

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”

“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”

“To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.”

“At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done”

“Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts”

“Good and bad men are less than they seem.”

“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.”

“In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.”

“The devil himself is good when he is pleased.”

“It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.”

“Goodness is the only investment which never fails.”

“Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.”

“There are few good women who do not tire of their role.”

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

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”

“There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.”

“To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.”

“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”

“The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.”

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.”

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

“As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.”

“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.”

“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”

“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”

“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”