Top 100 Quotes About Goodness In People
#1. If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.
Orson Scott Card
#2. There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
Umar
#3. If you see only goodness in people, then people will be good.
Debasish Mridha
#4. On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.
Conor Oberst
#5. Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.
Renee Zellweger
#6. But what about love, compassion, moral goodness, and self-transcendence? Many people still imagine that religion is the true repository of these virtues. To change this, we must talk about the full range of human experience in a way that is as free of dogma as the best science already is.
Sam Harris
#7. What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.
Omar Suleiman
#8. Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.
John C. Danforth
#9. With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. You're the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You're the light people crawl through darkness for. You're the good that balances out all the bad.
Jeannine Allison
#11. We are women. We believe in love and goodness and the kindness of others above all things. We are hard-wired to blame ourselves for things that other people do, even the bad, evil ones. That's why we're so good at compassion. It's also why we're our own worst enemies sometimes.
Elle Casey
#12. I wasn't as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.
What happened?
Everything ends. And it's how they end that leaves the lasting effect.
Zia Haider Rahman
#13. more needful that my heart should swell with loving admiration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at the same hearth with me, or
George Eliot
#14. Why not think that sometimes - just sometimes - you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.
Sylvain Reynard
#15. It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
John Waters
#16. Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.
Amit Kalantri
#17. As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!
Lyn Nofziger
#18. We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#19. When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.
Mark Matousek
#20. In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur ... us to achieve great things.
Jerry Spinelli
#21. Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.
Steve Goodier
#22. When you cry out against a God who punishes people in a place like hell, you cry out against the God who has revealed Himself in the pages of Scripture. You cry out against His goodness, holiness, and justice; and all the while you minimize your own sinfulness or the sinfulness of others.
Tim Challies
#23. Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
#24. Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
Jane Austen
#26. Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.
Sean Bean
#27. I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.
Aryn Kyle
#28. Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
Bill Bradley
#29. If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.
Joanna Garcia
#30. I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?
Silas House
#32. Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness or goodness in their character.
Stephen R. Covey
#33. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
Nelson Mandela
#34. The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.
Marilynne Robinson
#35. Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.
Desmond Tutu
#36. If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.
James Ussher
#37. But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
Marilyn Monroe
#38. The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#39. Everybody knows who Reba is. She has one name, for goodness sakes! There's only, like, six people in the world that have one name.
Sara Rue
#40. If you don't get the wrong people out of your life, you will never be able to get the right people in it!
Alex Haditaghi
#41. With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
Paul McCartney
#42. Most people carrying heavy loads begin to doubt themselves & their own worth. We lighten their loads as we are patient with their weaknesses & celebrate whatever goodness we can see in them. The Lord does that.
Henry B. Eyring
#43. I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.
John Waters
#44. The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
Thomas S. Monson
#45. To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us.
It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.
Dallas Willard
#46. Oh, how so beautiful an old bridge looks! You know why? Because it helped so many people to crossover under every condition! Can you see the pure goodness and the beautiful devotion in an old worn bridge?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind.
Diane Hendricks
#48. Let people pray to God, it's nothing to me. Some good may even come of it, if goodness is something that matters to you. Trap him in churches if you must, and lament him there. But Roma? Roma is a weapon used against us. A poison flavoured sweet and given to hungry men.
Mark Lawrence
#49. There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#50. Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.
M. Scott Peck
#51. Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.
Marianne Williamson
#52. A good person always find the goodness in a bad person.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Remember, your goodness as a person isn't based on how much you give in relationships, and it isn't selfish to set limits on people who keep on taking.
Lindsay C. Gibson
#54. I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad Ali
#55. I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.
Peter Sis
#56. Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.
Gwenda Bond
#58. There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It's very rare that someone does things purely out of the goodness of their heart. Most need something to fight against, something to drive them forward in order to create a light in what will always be a very dark world.
Kevin Reaver
#60. I understood how we long to believe in goodness, especially in the person we promised to love and honor. It isn't just about them, it is how we want to see ourselves. It says that we are good people, patient and kind.
Ann Patchett
#61. Even in his greatest dedication to science he had never managed to forget that people's goodness and beauty come from what they believe, not from what they know.
Robert Musil
#62. God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
David Platt
#63. Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
#64. - To some extent. Men want to think the best of women, especially if they're attractive. Isn't there some truth in that? That we attribute moral goodness to attractive people? And to those who present themselves as victims? Natalie
Liz Jensen
#65. Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.
Craig Groeschel
#66. It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you
William Carlos Williams
#67. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.
John Paul Jackson
#68. I don't mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person ...
Kaje Harper
#69. I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
Tom Shadyac
#70. How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.
Eugene O'Neill
#71. It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.
Donald L. Hicks
#72. In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.
David Brooks
#73. We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
Nigel Barker
#74. In fact, if there was one thing Tabitha had learned from the weekend thus far, it was that people had all sorts of facades about them, covering tucked-away bits of badness and goodness. Fear and courage. Helplessness and hope.
Jessica Lawson
#75. Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.
Bill Johnson
#76. A religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.
Michael S. Horton
#77. 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
#78. Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
Aaron Eckhart
#79. Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley Warner
#80. The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.
Henri Nouwen
#81. I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.
J. E. Buckrose
#82. I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a good second-rate poet. I repeated it aloud in a Guardian interview in 1976, and some people thought I was a coy old thing.
John Pudney
#83. When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#84. Goodness is also about interacting with people, brands, companies and organizations who are invested in sustainable and ethical practices. What's the point of using products that are ruining our Earth? It doesn't make sense.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#85. 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
#86. The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom.
In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.
Nelson Mandela
#87. How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Fiona Apple
#88. I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.
Tricia Helfer
#89. There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.
Jerry Springer
#90. The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.
Amit Abraham
#91. Ah darling, goodness, I think, never brought any one out. Goodness, when it's real, precisely, rather keeps people IN.
Henry James
#92. So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.
Sonia Sotomayor
#93. One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#94. Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That's what we need in the world today: people who will stand for right and goodness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#95. I think the way for [Marco] Rubio to say to [Donald] Trump supporters, hey, essentially he's conned you. He's a con man. That's what they do. You pour gold people.My goodness, that's not the way to bring them in.
Bernie Sanders
#96. Protect your space and circle. Invest in people who you know will feed you just as much goodness as you do them.
Alexandra Elle
#97. I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
Anne Hathaway
#98. There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.
Jacques Rigaut
#99. Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. 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
