144 Inspiring Goodness Quotes

In a world where negativity can often overshadow the light, words of goodness offer a much-needed respite. They have the power to uplift, inspire, and remind us of the beauty that still exists in everyday life. This curated collection of the top 144 inspiring goodness quotes aims to bring a sense of hope and positivity to your journey, whether you're seeking motivation, comfort, or simply a moment of reflection. Let these quotes be a beacon of light, guiding you towards kindness, empathy, and the transformative power of doing good. Dive in and allow these words to kindle the goodness within you and those around you.

1. “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ” - Mae West

2. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou

3. “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” - Mahatma Gandhi

4. “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” - Nelson Mandela

5. “He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)” - C. S. Lewis

6. “When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ” - Jim Henson

7. “This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.” - Martin Luther

8. “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.” - Mahatma Gandhi

9. “The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ” - Daniel Webster

10. “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.” - Mahatma Gandhi

11. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” - William Shakespeare

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

13. “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

14. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” - Leo Tolstoy

15. “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” - Marcus Aurelius

16. “Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.” - W.H. Auden

17. “...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.” - Billie Letts

18. “What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

19. “I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .” - John Stuart Mill

20. “Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” - Louisa May Alcott

21. “Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious. It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's. Strike, Shadow, strike! And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal.” - Dickens, Charles

22. “Be good and you will be lonesome.” - Mark Twain

23. “And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?- Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world.(- А теперь скажи мне, что это ты все время употребляешь слова добрыелюди"? Ты всех, что ли, так называешь?- Всех, - ответил арестант, - злых людей нет на свете.)” - Mikhail Bulgakov

24. “I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.” - Daniel Nayeri

25. “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly” - George Harrison

26. “Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man.{Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}” - Clarence Darrow

27. “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.” - Justin Cronin

28. “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

29. “i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.” - Bob Hicok

30. “But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don’t care what people say, they can’t all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men’s graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don’t care what you ladies think of me,” her voice broke again, “I will withdraw from both clubs and I’ll — I’ll pull up every weed off every Yankee’s grave I can find and I’ll plant flowers, too — and — I just dare anyone to stop me!” - Margaret Mitchell

31. “And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.” - Charles Dickens

32. “Knowing the Techniques of Survival........Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surrounds us. Getting focused to the things that matter are the Key to what has to be to COMPLETE our MISSION. "I Had Every Excuse to Fail but I Chose None" Speak Life!!!(sky)” - Sebastian K. Young

33. “But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.” - Robert A. Heinlein

34. “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.” - William Shakespeare

35. “Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.” - Cassandra Clare

36. “Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don’t know and therefore what you should know? If your answer is affirmative and humble, then you are your own teacher, you are making your own assignment, and you will be your own best critic. You will not need externally imposed courses, nor marks, nor diplomas, nor a nod from your boss . . . in business or in politics. (from the essay The Last Don Rag)” - Scott M. Buchanan

37. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” - Mae West

38. “Não importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e mais forte do que qualquer imagem dessas: um conceito do bem baseado na afirmação da vida, na repulsa à destruição, à perversidade, ao uso e abuso do homem pelo homem. Era a afirmação do humano e do natural.” - Anne Rice

39. “You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.” - Neil Gaiman

40. “Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.” - David Almond

41. “A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.” - Albert Schweitzer

42. “Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.” - Julius Lester

43. “Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.” - colum mccann

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

45. “In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out.” - Toba Beta

46. “Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.” - Francis H. Bradley

47. “But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.” - Laura Lippman

48. “If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.” - Leo Tolstoy

49. “There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

50. “Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu.” - Fredrik Nael

51. “Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.” - Leo Tolstoy

52. “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” - J.K. Rowling

53. “I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.” - Stephen Fry

54. “On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.” - Albert Camus

55. “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]” - Siddhārtha Gautama

56. “I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!” - Steve Maraboli

57. “God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.” - Elisabeth Elliot

58. “Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.” - Steve Maraboli

59. “It is good people who make good places.” - Anna Sewell

60. “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.” - Victor Hugo

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

62. “I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.” - Daniel Handler

63. “I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.” - Jenny Valentine

64. “Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.” - Theodore Dalrymple

65. “Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

66. “Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

67. “Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

68. “Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?” - Epictetus

69. “Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness.” - Plato

70. “Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.” - Joe Wheeler

71. “it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad as i think i need to be.i think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rewarded” - paulo coelho-the devil and miss prym

72. “The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.” - C. JoyBell C.

73. “I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.” - Anne Rice

74. “Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.” - Terry Pratchett

75. “All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.” - Paul Karl Feyerabend

76. “[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?""Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.” - Anne Rice

77. “Riyakârlık aşağılığın en son haddidir. Sahiden iyi insanlar, kötüler hakkında laf söylemezlerdi. (...) Riyayı kaldırırsanız mesele yoktur, kötüler hemen saflarına iyiyi alıverirler. Önemli olan kötülüğü iyilikle beraber ortadan kaldırmaktır. O zaman insanlık denilen şey kafasını kaldırır: 'Durun bakalım', der, 'biz de varız.” - Sait Faik Abasıyanık

78. “wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state” - Socrates

79. “Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic - only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she turned to discover what was behind her, that I could have brought happiness to at least one mortal. Me and my dreams of goodness. I had always been a fool for them.” - Krisi Keley

80. “Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

81. “Goodness preaches constantly, wants to change humanity, to work miracles from one day to the next, makes a show of its substance, wants to question essentials, but in fact is most often just hollow, lacking in substance, essence itself. A good word which has not yet been put into practice holds within itself every virgin possibility and is more than a good deed, the outcome of which is dubious, its effect arguable. In general words are always more than deeds.” - Deszo Koszstolanyi

82. “I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.” - Ellis Peters

83. “Not all good things come from good people.” - Toba Beta

84. “Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.” - Peter Kreeft

85. “The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.” - Iain Pears

86. “Life wants each of us to live on the 'A Team' -      Wider, ever more intense Acceptance of good in our lives.      Wider, ever more intense Awareness of good in our lives.      Wider, ever more intense Action for good in our lives.www.upwardjoy.com” - Laura Teresa Marquez

87. “My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.” - Ruta Sepetys

88. “Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.” - Wendell Berry

89. “Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.” - Michel de Montaigne

90. “ينبغي ألا نندم على حبٍ أو احساس عشناهُ يومًا بكل الصدق، فسوفَ تكشفُ لنا الأيامُ أن ما بقى داخلنا من مشاعر الحب كان أجمل و أبقى مما في أعماقِ انسانٍ تخلّى عنا او غدرَ بنا، لأن الذي يصنعُ الفضيلة لا يندمُ عليها، والذي يرسمُ خطوطَ الجمال لا يعنيه أبدًا أن يرسم غيره أشكالَ القبح.” - فاروق جويدة

91. “Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.” - Marcus Aurelius

92. “Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.” - Marcus Aurelius

93. “But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.” - Anonymous

94. “It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.” - Rumi

95. “If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

96. “How good life is when one does something good and just!” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

97. “Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.” - Kurt Vonnegut

98. “But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.” - William Saroyan

99. “Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness.”I could hardly believe my ears. “But aren’t we supposed to be good?”“I’m not sure.” Grandfather’s voice was heavy. “I do know that we’re not good, and there’s a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” - Madeleine L'Engle

100. “In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

101. “Be nice. Be good. Be happy. If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

102. “Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.” - Pope John Paul II

103. “She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.” - Ann-Marie MacDonald

104. “We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole” - seneca

105. “Perhaps there really is a good that exists; for a century of darkness to be eschewed by a single flame; for a decade of evil done to the heart to be undone by simple and unplanned acts of kindness! There must be a goodness, after all! But we don't find it when we're looking for it; not in church, not in a cathedral, not even in our own homes! We find it when we've fallen down so hard, are downtrodden so low; and there is one true friend who picks us up; or one random person who takes us in! And we realize goodness was never in the places we thought it was! It was all along in the most humble of places: bound up in the heart of a true friend.” - C. JoyBell C.

106. “And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass,It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps, And here you are the mothers' laps."- Song of Myself: 6” - Walt Whitman

107. “Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.” - Tom Giaquinto

108. “He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.” - Lauren Groff

109. “The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?” - Warren St. John

110. “There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.” - Jacqueline Carey

111. “Ipak smo svi mi tek obični ljudi, i jedino što je važno to je da li je netko dobar ili nije.” - Miro Gavran

112. “Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

113. “We each have words for "love" in our languages. What would the world look like if we acted on that one word for humanity's sake?” - Julie Saffrin

114. “One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.” - Alasdair Gray

115. “Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

116. “The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

117. “The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop seeking his good in Godlessness.” - Fulton J. Sheen

118. “Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky

119. “No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!” - Marcus Aurelius

120. “I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.” - Criss Jami

121. “Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

122. “In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

123. “But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.” - Paulo Coelho

124. “I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.” - Stacey T. Hunt

125. “Semua yang diciptakan tentu selalu ada tujuannya. Tapi tentu saja terkadang engkau boleh memilih. Kalau engkau tak ingin kelebihan yang diberikan kepadamu, tentu engkau bisa.. mengabaikannya, bukan?""Mengabaikan?" "Ya, anggap saja engkau tak pernah punya kelebihan itu. Berlakulah seperti orang biasa.” - Yudhi Herwibowo

126. “Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last forever is making a false promise; he is overlooking human freedom. Freedom must be constantly won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined and good state of the world, man's freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all.” - Pope Benedict-XVI

127. “I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.” - Arthur Golden

128. “...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...” - John Geddes

129. “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

130. “Good and bad exist always, everywhere” - R. Alan Woods

131. “No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?” - G.K. Chesterton

132. “If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting his own goods. It is just because he does not want to commit adultery that he achieves the romance of sex; it is just because he loves one wife that he has a hundred honeymoons.” - G.K. Chesterton

133. “Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

134. “The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.” - Charlene Costanzo

135. “We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.” - Herbert Spencer

136. “God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.” - Anne Brontë

137. “The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.” - Fulton J. Sheen

138. “Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

139. “There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!” - Dada J.P. Vaswani

140. “For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

141. “I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.” - Charlotte Brontë

142. “Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

143. “Evil is predicable; Good is paradoxical.” - Lara Biyuts

144. “Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.” - Shannon L. Alder