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There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
-Chinese Proverb
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Mighty in deeds and not in words.
-Anon.
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Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
-Proverb
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-Woody Allen
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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
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
-Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book 4, 167
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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
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A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
-St. Basil
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
-Saul Bellow
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
-William Blake
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
-Bertolt Brecht
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
-Emily Bronte
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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
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If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
-Louise Brown
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What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
-Buddha
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
-Elias Canetti
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
-Thomas Carlyle
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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.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
-Leonard Cohen
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Books about Goodness
