Top 50 Most Inspiring Quotes On Goodness

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No one is perfect. Every single person has a flaw or two that can be seen as a negative thing. Maybe they have a bad temper; maybe they are spiteful; maybe they are greedy; maybe they have anger issues. But everyone has something. And it is those good things that will motivate you to be an example to others of what a good human being should be and make the world a beautiful place. Just like how President Obama was motivated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we too can be inspired by these people who do good deeds and do not judge others but help them instead. Even if someone does not know them personally, their story will inspire us to want to do better and make the world a better place for all its inhabitants.

These inspirational quotes will remind you to show the world your good side and be an example of a person who could make the world a little bit more beautiful.

50 Most Inspiring Quotes On Goodness

“Only when goodness awakens within, will one’s personality and actions gain beauty and strength.” ― Amma

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.” ― Billy Graham

“Never let a bad person change you inner goodness.” ― Karen Salmansohn

“We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.” ― Desmond Tutu

“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.” ― Walter Savage Landor

“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.” ― Meister Eckhart

“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.” ― Bertolt Brecht

“Goodness comes from inside of you. It is your energy and make up. When given away, it leads to greatness.” ― Anonymous

“Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.” ― Les Brown

“Wisdom has its root in goodness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.” ― Nelson Mandela

“Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.” ― Wes Fesler

“Whenever you share the goodness in your heart, you always end up winning because life is an echo. It gives back what you have given.” ― Anonymous

“Be the kind of person that you want to meet.” ― Anonymous

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“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

“Go out into the world and do well, but more importantly go out into the world and do good.” ― Anonymous

“Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.” ― Matthew Henry

“If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.” ― Anonymous

“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.” ― Stephen King

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” ― William Shakespeare

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ― Desmond Tutu

“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.” ― Xun Kuang

“Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.” ― Anonymous

“The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.” ― Leo Buscaglia

“Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” ― Anonymous

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” ― Thomas Carlyle

“Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.” ― E.H. Chapins

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” ― Dalai Lama

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

“Good people bring out the good in other people.” ― Anonymous

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.” ― Charles Dickens

“Live in such a way that if people should see you they could see God’s goodness in you.” ― Anonymous

“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained.” ― Lao Tzu

“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.” ― Dennis Prager

“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.” ― Christopher Marlowe

“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these, I commit my day.” ― Max Lucado

“Goodness is better than beauty.” ― Vietnamese Proverb

“Find the goodness that is already within you.” ― Eckhart Tolle

“There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“There is no limit to the amount of good a person can do if they don’t care who gets the credit.” ― Anonymous

“Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.” ― Bryant H. McGill

“There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.” ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” ― Denis Waitley

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.” ― Charles Baudelaire

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