To be good and do good is the whole duty of man
comprised in a few words.
-Abigail Adams
The fundamental idea for good
is thus that is consists in preserving life, favoring it,
in wanting to bring it to its highest value.
-Albert Schweitzer
Good means what has struck a balance
between the external and the internal.
-Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
Seek good for it may then find you -The Oculatum
Seek goodness everywhere,
and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place
and let it be free and unashamed.
-William Saroyan
Look within.
Within is the fountain of good,
and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
-Marcus Aurelius
The roots of all goodness
lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama
Good, the more communicated,
more abundant grows.
-John Milton
Goodness shows itself
in behavior and action and in relationship.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
We cannot all see alike,
but we can all do good.
-P. T. Barnum
Nothing can be good for us
without being good for all.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
No reward coming
after the event can compare
with the sweet reward that went with it.
-Maurice Maeterlinck
Nothing leads to good
that is not natural.
-Johann Friedrich von Schiller
Goodness is uneventful.
It does not flash, it glows.
-David Grayson
The good is the beautiful.
-Plato
Goodness is beauty in its best estate. -Christopher Marlowe
Goodness is not achieved in a vacuum,
but in the company of other men, attended by love.
-Saul Bellow
Goodness is love in action.
-James Hamilton
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty.
It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
-H. A. Overstreet
The only real and absolute good for man
is a good will.
-William Samuel Lilly
Be not merely good.
Be good for something.
-Henry David Thoreau
Seek always to do some good somewhere.
-Albert Schweitzer
To make one good action succeed another,
is the perfection of goodness.
-Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
-attributed to John Wesley
Do what is good
and ask not what follows.
-Kenko
Do good and throw it in the sea.
-Arabic Proverb
Do good by stealth,
and blush to find it fame.
-Alexander Pope
An act of goodness
is of itself an act of happiness.
-Maurice Maeterlink
He who would do good to another,
must do so in minute particulars.
-William Blake
He who is too involved in doing good
will not have time to be good.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Real Goodness
is seeing the goodness that's in all.
-Anasuya Devi
The greatest good you can do for another
is not just to share your riches
but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Show interest in her goodness,
for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
-Bertolt Brecht
Confidence in the goodness of another
is good proof of one's own goodness.
-Michel de Montaigne
It is only great souls
that know how much glory there is in being good.
-Sophocles
And perhaps there is a kind of magic
about being always, steadily, reliably very good.
-Sonia Levitin
If you cling frantically to the good,
how are you to find out what the good really is?
-Robertson Davies
Being good is just a matter of temperament
in the end.
-Iris Murdoch
Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
-Alfred Tennyson
A self-realized being cannot help benefiting the world.
His very existence is the highest good.
-Ramana Maharshi
Every good that you do,
every good that you say,
every good thought that you think,
vibrates on and on and never ceases...
the good remains forever.
-Mildred Norman, "Peace Pilgrim"
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.
-Euripides
You are remembered for your goodness.
-Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, "Yogi Bhajan"
