Goodness Quotes

“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, Kidnapped

“I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“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, Anna Karenina

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

“Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.”
― Phil Lester

“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.”
― C. Toni Graham

“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

“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.”
― Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows

“Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.”
― Ana Monnar

“Remember to celebrate the small accomplishments along your journey because they will provide the support needed when the road gets rocky. ”
― C. Toni Graham

“...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, Where the Heart Is

“Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.”
― C. Toni Graham

“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice, never lose sight of that.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Life’s too short to walk around with your arms crossed and bottom lip poked out. Find a way to smile for yourself even if it’s as simple as licking the spoon clean or putting clean sheets on your bed.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”
― C. Toni Graham

“There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“It’s not just the big moments that count, it’s all of the small actions that feed our heart and soul on a daily basis. Cherish those moments and reflect on how to replicate them often.”
― C. Toni Graham

“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”
― C. Toni Graham

“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, The Merchant of Venice

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
― C. Toni Graham

“She tries to be a good person. But deep down she knows she is a bad person, corrupted, wrong, and all her efforts to be right, to have the right opinions, to say the right things, these efforts only disguise what is buried inside her, the evil part of herself.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Why can’t I be like that? Why can’t I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can’t I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can’t I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can’t I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“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, Tales from Earthsea