Goodness Quotes
24 quotations about Goodness
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
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.
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
Authors on Goodness
Saul Bellow
Bertolt Brecht
Elias Canetti
Chinese Proverb
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Euripides
Thomas Fuller
David Grayson
Georg Hegel
Aldous Huxley
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Iris Murdoch
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Orwell
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jan Van Ruysbroeck
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
William Shakespeare