Quotes about Goodness
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
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
— Henry David Thoreau
None but such as are good men can give good things, and that which is not good, is not delicious to a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
— John Milton
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
— Oprah Winfrey
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
— James Allen