Quotes about Goodness
We all must try to be good.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Even the things we don't understand are a display of the goodness of God.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5
— Liz Curtis Higgs
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
— Ronald Reagan
There is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.
— Rowan Williams
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
— St. Augustine
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
— Elbert Hubbard
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
— Theodore Roosevelt
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
— Ashley Montagu
Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.
— Alice Hoffman