Goodness Quotes

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

The civilized classes and nations are swept away by the grand rush for contemptible wealth. Never was the world worldlier, never was it emptier of love and goodness.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

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

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.

Situations can change; people can change. Be the first to seek to bring good. Do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it with good.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good.

In education dwells the seed of hope: hope for peace and justice, hope for beauty and goodness; hope for social harmony.

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

To all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

Some cultures believe a long life brings wisdom. I'd like to think so. Perhaps, part of that wisdom is to recognize some of life's baffling paradoxes such as the way human beings have a huge propensity for good, and yet a capacity for evil.