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Goodness

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.--Maurice Maeterlinck
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.--William Wordsworth
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.--Tyron Edwards
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world… By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.--Albert Schweitzer
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.--John Wesley
Do your little bit of good where you care; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.--Desmond Tutu
Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles
The first idea that the child must acquire in order to be actively disciplined is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.--Maria Montessori
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.--Catherine Ponder
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.--Ralph W. Sockman
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.--Luke 6:45 (NIV)
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.--William Saroyan
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.--James Allen
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward things we are. To be good is the great thing.--Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.--Joan Chittister
Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.--James Hamilton
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.--Henry David Thoreau
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.--Charles Lamb
He that does good to another does good also to himself.--Seneca
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.--William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.--François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.--Stephan Grellet
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.--Anne Frank
I think we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.--Hugh O'Conor (Chocolat)
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.--Simone Weil
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.--Flora Edwards
In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.--Deirdre Sullivan ("Always Go to the Funeral" in This I Believe ed. by Allison and Gediman)
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.--Albert Schweitzer
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.--Margaret Mead (Redbook, 1978)
Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.--Norman Vincent Peale
No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we can do good.--Chester A. Pennington
No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.--John Greenleaf Whittier
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.--Alan Alda
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.--Mahatma Gandhi
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.--Nikola Tesla
1. People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered (including me). Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the littlest people with the littlest ideas. Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9. People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.-Kent M. Keith
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.--Mahatma Gandhi
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.--James K. Geiblemen
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.--Montaigne ("Of Repentance" Essays)
To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.--Napoleon I
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.--Marcus Aurelius
When "Do no Evil" has been understood,
Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good."--Arthur Guiterman ("Of Duty" A Poet's Proverbs)
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity. The sense of belonging keeps you in balance amidst the inner and outer immensities. The ancient and eternal values of human life - truth, unity, goodness, justice, beauty, and love are all statements of belonging; they are also the secret intention and dream of human longing. --John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong)
When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.--Alfre Woodard