Devotions on Goodness

A Good Woman
Anyway
Grandma And The Cake

Quotations on Goodness

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
- George Eliot
*** The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
*** Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
- Marie von Ebner Eschenbach
*** Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it.
- Pohl's Law
*** It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle
*** Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
- Aristotle
*** We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W. H. Auden
*** Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Euripides
*** The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides
*** Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
*** Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
*** The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell
*** On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
*** An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
*** It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead
*** Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
- Thomas Aquinas
*** A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
- Maxim Gorky
*** Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
- Aldous Huxley
*** 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
*** It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
*** It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
- Jimmy Buffett
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