Quotes about Goodness
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
- John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
- AW Tozer
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
- Confucius
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
- Edmund Burke
Few men are wantonly wicked.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.
- Mark Twain
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
- Martin Luther
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
- Henry David Thoreau