Quotes about Goodness
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
— Ambrose of Milan
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