Goodness Quotes - Page 8

• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Good Man, Enemy

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• Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

  Plutarch

  Real, Excellence

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

  Isaac Barrow

  May, Be Good, Please

  Isaac Barrow (1798). “Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...”, p.378

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• The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

  Max Muller

  Flower, Men, Wind

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Thrive

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• What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

  Samuel Johnson

  Found, Please, Has Beens

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.232

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• The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Happiness, Simple

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Depressing, Thinking, Self

  "Jingo". Book by Terry Pratchett, November 1997.

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.

  John Gerstner

  God, Sin, Good Deeds

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• You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

  Herb Lubalin

  Creativity, Greatness, Design

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle

  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Cruelty

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

  Seneca the Younger

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)

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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Conceited, Long

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Cheating, Humor

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

  John Dryden

  Love, Grace, Literature

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• Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Heart, Simple

  "The 10 most intriguing people of 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com. 2009.

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• No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Children, Light, Giving

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.78, Ardent Media

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