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Goodness Quotes

While it doesn't take much to be bad, it can be pretty challenging for a person to stay true, good and righteous in life. In a world full of temptations and wrong doers, it is always that much easier to give into the urge of committing a wrong. Maybe this is exactly why it is as difficult as it is to come across a good and righteous person. Almost everyone on this planet, at some point of time or the other, have committed acts that they may not be too proud of. But that doesn't make you a sinner - one can always redeem oneself! Find your way through this article for famous sayings and quotations on being good and righteous.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.

Death Blood Patriotism Peace
Theodore Roosevelt
Martin Sheen

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Martin Sheen
Salvador Dali

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Beautiful Art Power Purity
Salvador Dali
Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Love Meaningful Religion Compassion
Dalai Lama
Thomas Paine

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Religion Belief Unkindness Spirituality
Thomas Paine
Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Practice Compassion Discussion Selflessness
Dalai Lama
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Good Meaningful Proverbs Wickedness
Saint Thomas Aquinas
David Lloyd George

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Men Comparisons Socialism Example
David Lloyd George
Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Religion Battles Belief Optimism
Malcolm X
Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Attitude Sincerity Encouragement Truth
Malcolm X
Lord Mountbatten

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Vanity
Lord Mountbatten
Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Meaningful Advice Attitude Discussion
Dalai Lama
Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art Chance Dishonest Sincerity
Salvador Dali
Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Love Advice Affection Conduct
Thomas Jefferson
Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Meaningful Accountability Compassion Reality
Dalai Lama
Malcolm X

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Love Affection Belief People
Malcolm X
Dr. Seuss

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Night Time
Dr. Seuss
Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Baby Children’s Day Adversity Peace
Thomas Paine
Michelle Pfeiffer

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Respect Time
Michelle Pfeiffer
Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Good Love Religion Affection
Thomas Paine
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Good Attitude People Personality
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Thomas Paine

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Good Religion Sermon Principles
Thomas Paine
Stephen King

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Wickedness Good
Stephen King
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.

Men Service God Kindness
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Thomas Mann

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Death Love Men Courage
Thomas Mann
Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Good Confidence
Michel de Montaigne
Gordon Ramsay

I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

People
Gordon Ramsay
Rosamund Pike

Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.

Good Luck
Rosamund Pike

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Wars
Jimmy Carter

Holidays help because they come with stories, and the Hanukkah story is good for relaying that the divine pervades everything, even darkness.

Hanukkah Viewpoint Festivity Positivity
Anonymous

Let us vow to lead the world from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth, and from wrong to right

Diwali Hanukkah Acceptance Promises
Anonymous

The significance of Diwali is the removal of the darkness of ignorance from the mind by filling it with goodness.

Diwali Purpose Truth Facts
Anonymous

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Christianity Easter Love Animals
Anonymous

May this Easter bring you hope, faith in goodness and human nature!

Easter Positivity Faith Hope
Anonymous