Inspirations

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

- Aristotle

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

- Mikhail Bakunin

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

- Saul Bellow

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

- Phillips Brooks

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

- Thomas Carlyle

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

- Pablo Casals

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

- Euripides

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

- David Grayson

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

- Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

- George Orwell

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.

- Chinese Proverb

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts

- Tibetan Proverb

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

- Jan Van Ruysbroeck

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

- Sappho

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

- William Shakespeare

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

- Henry David Thoreau

Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.

- Source Unknown

Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.

- Source Unknown

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

- Simone Weil

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