Goodness Quotes - Page 6

In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else - happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing.

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil.... You, who see evil everywhere....' It was true, and it was not true.

If you are only good to your loved ones, it doesn’t make you a good person.

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Everyone is good if you see from good side.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Truth is the spirit of all that is good and worthy through loving.

It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.

Everything good is good because of the love it contains.