Goodness is an inherent trait we all aspire to embody and recognize in others. In this collection, we delve into the realm of the good, exploring various facets through carefully curated quotes. These thoughts offer wisdom and inspiration, reminding us of the beauty and power of goodwill, kindness, and positive deeds. Whether you're seeking motivation, comfort, or a moment of reflection, these quotes serve as a beacon of light, guiding us towards a more understanding and compassionate world.
Quotes about Goodness and Kindness
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people." - Dennis Prager
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." - Washington Irving
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." - Seneca
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." - Hada Bejar
"To be good and to do good, is all we have to do." - John Adams
"Acts of kindness are eyes to see the good in the world." - Anonymous
"The simple act of caring is heroic." - Edward Albert
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind." - Anonymous
Quotes Celebrating Good Deeds
"Deeds survive the doer." - Horace Mann
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"A good deed is the best form of prayer." - Anonymous
"What we do comes back to us: act accordingly." - Anonymous
"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can." - John Wesley
"Your good deeds might seem invisible, but they leave a trail that is imprinted on the hearts of others." - Buddha
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Lao Tzu
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike
"The best portion of a good person's life is their little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." - William Wordsworth
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato
Quotes on the Power of Good Thoughts
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand." - Bob Proctor
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." - Anonymous
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you." - Anonymous
"Happiness is an inside job." - Anonymous
Quotes about Good Intentions
"Our intentions create our reality." - Wayne Dyer
"Intentions are the soil in which the seeds of destiny are planted." - T. F. Hodge
"The smallest leaf of itself becomes a kind of promise from God." - Celeste Ng
"A man's intentions should be pure." - Danzo Shimura
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." - Proverb
"Intentions tailored, reality altered." - Anonymous
"When you cease to crave, you also cease to desire good or bad happenings, and become vast like the ocean." - William
Radice
"Good intentions are useless in the absence of effective action." - Anonymous
"Do good; seek good; think good." - Anonymous
"Your intention should be pure and your path unambiguous." - Anonymous
"Good intentions might sound good, but willingness is much better." - Jane Smiley
"Intentions are the blueprint for actions." - Anonymous
Quotes on Being a Good Person
"To be a good person, one must be able to understand the world through the eyes of others." - Anonymous
"Being a good person is like being a goalie; no matter how many goals you achieve and win, people remember only the
goals you missed." - Anonymous
"Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"A good person is genuinely happy in the happiness of others." - Donna Goddard
"A good person is not the one who merely follows the precepts of virtues but knows within what they need to be
virtuous of." - Anonymous
"A good person values more, what money cannot buy." - Tony Clark
"A true good person is not aware of the good in them." - Moe Ἀναξίμανδρος
"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud." - Maya Angelou
"Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room." - Dwayne Johnson
"A good person attracts good people." - Denzel Washington
"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect." - Luther Campbell
"A good person will be good to the self." - Socrates
Quotes for Good Living
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"To prosper, consider the senses from the viewpoint of the soul." - Katherine Anne Porter
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination." - Carl Rogers
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!" - Thoreau
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
"To live well is a finite task." - Lucy Larcom
"Life is too important to be taken so seriously." - Oscar Wilde
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard Bach
"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
- Denis Waitley
"A good life is a collection of happy moments." - Denis Waitley
Quotes about Being Good to Others
"We rise by lifting others." - Robert Ingersoll
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It's to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Give, but give until it hurts." - Mother Teresa
"No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank
"Do unto others as you wish others to do unto you." - The Golden Rule
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." - John Holmes
"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others." - Booker T. Washington
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." - Mother Teresa
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes on the Goodness in Challenges
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Seneca
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery
Channing
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." - African Proverb
"Embrace your struggles as blessings in disguise." - Anonymous
"Out of difficulties, grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere
"The tougher the storm, the brighter the rainbow follows." - Anonymous
"Adversity introduces a man to himself." - Albert Einstein
"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - Thomas S. Monson
"All things are difficult before they are easy." - Thomas Fuller
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
Quotes on the Good in Human Nature
"I have learned that there is more good in this world than bad, no matter what it feels like along the way." - Marianne
Williamson
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf." - Orson Scott Card
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"The best in us: we have it." - Steve Jobs
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
feel." - Maya Angelou
"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The true wealth of a nation lies not in its gold or silver but in its learning, wisdom, and in the uprightness of
its sons." - Kahlil Gibran
"It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people." -
Martin Luther King Jr.
"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow's truth of the mass." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back
the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what
remains behind." - William Wordsworth
"Even though the world is getting older, it remains a beautiful place." - Anonymous
Quotes about the Good Influence of Positivity
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future merely by changing his attitude." - Oprah Winfrey
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson
"If you hear a voice within you saying you are not a painter, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent van Gogh
"Your attitudes and the choices you make today will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely." - Anonymous
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill
"Positive thinking must be planted in us before our lives can be transformed with a greater outlook towards possibilities." - Anonymous
"The attitude you bring into situations can change the outcome." - Anonymous
Final words
Goodness is a universal concept that transcends boundaries and cultures. Through acts of kindness, positive actions, and a shift in thought, the power of being good reverberates through society, creating ripples of compassion and mutual understanding. As highlighted through the quotes, doing good, thinking positive, and living well are not merely ideals but concrete steps toward a harmonious existence. Let these words inspire your journey toward virtuous living, enhancing the world around you. Embrace goodness as a daily practice, and witness the transformative power it holds, both within and beyond yourself. Let the wisdom of famous thinkers guide you in embodying and promoting the good, thereby making a lasting impact on both a personal and global scale.
