Quotes about Goodness
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
— James A. Garfield
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
— Cicero
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
— Thomas Paine
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
— Samuel Johnson
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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