goodness Quotes

“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

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

topic:humanity choice goodness

“If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:responsibility goodness

“now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

“intentions, good or bad, are not enough.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:honesty goodness

“How good life is when one does something good and just!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:life justice goodness

“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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