Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Goodness.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
C.S. Lewis
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
J.K. Rowling
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...
Thornton Wilder
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
Orson Scott Card
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
Neil Gaiman
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.
Cassandra Clare
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.(as Maudie Triplett), Response to Goodness! What a lovely diamond! in the film Night After Night (1932). She later used
Mae West
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Sappho
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Mandell Creighton
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Bertolt Brecht
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jos
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
