'Tis only noble to be good. [ Tennyson ]

God's glory is His goodness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

How goodness heightens beauty! [ Hannah More ]

Seek for good, but expect evil. [ Cervantes ]

Learn the luxury of doing good. [ Goldsmith ]

Much religion, but no goodness. [ Proverb ]

The true and good resemble gold. [ Jacobi ]

How near to good is what is fair! [ Ben Jonson ]

Nothing rarer than real goodness. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He is good that does good to others. [ La Bruyere ]

Happy were men if they but understood
There is no safety but in doing good. [ John Fountain ]

Concealed goodness is a sort of vice. [ Proverb ]

Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade. [ Cowper ]

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well,
And yet words are no deeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Goodness is beauty in its best estate. [ Marlowe ]

Goodness admits of no excess, but error. [ Bacon ]

Man should be ever better than he seems. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

It is more your goodness, than my desert. [ Proverb ]

O goodness! that shall evil turn to good. [ Milton ]

Sin writes histories; goodness Is silent. [ Goethe ]

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearfuL [ William Shakespeare ]

Be not simply good; be good for something. [ Thoreau ]

That good diffused may more abundant grow. [ Cowper ]

Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. [ Milton ]

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined. [ Owen Meredith ]

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness. [ Massinger ]

Goodness and being in the gods are one;
He who imputes ill to them makes them none. [ Euripides ]

Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. [ Dryden ]

Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. [ Cowper ]

Evil and good are God's right band and left. [ Bailey ]

Who does the best his circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. [ Young ]

Lend me thy clarion goodness! let me try
To sound the praise of merit ere it dies.
Such as I oft have chanced to espy,
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good. [ Aurelius Antoninus ]

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. [ Pope ]

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. [ Coleridge ]

Scream as we may at the bad, the good prevails. [ Bartol ]

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems. [ Milton ]

Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goodness. [ Wilberforce ]

For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. [ Thoreau ]

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. [ Milton, Paradise Lost ]

Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]

Good deeds ring clear through heaven, like a bell. [ Richter ]

There is a warp of evil woven in the wool of good. [ Manilius ]

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence. [ Martial ]

It is not goodness to be better than the very worst. [ Seneca ]

Men have less lively perception of good than of evil. [ Livy ]

Politeness is to goodness, what words are to thought. [ Joseph Joubert ]

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself. [ Mencius ]

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. [ Bovee ]

It is goodness, not greatness, that will; do you good. [ Proverb ]

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. [ Epictetus ]

Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good. [ Bailey ]

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. [ Barrow ]

Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. [ Emerson ]

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. [ Milton ]

Wine is the vintner's, but the goodness of it the drawer's. [ Proverb ]

God's power never produces what His goodness cannot embrace. [ South ]

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. [ Daniel Webster ]

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. [ J. G. Holland ]

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. [ James Shirley ]

Let grace and goodness be the principle loadstone of thy affections. [ Dryden ]

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. [ Michelet ]

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. [ Bishop Hall ]

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. [ Carlyle ]

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. [ Sappho ]

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. [ Sophocles ]

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. [ Swift ]

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into. [ Plutarch ]

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. [ Lavater ]

The humor of youth, which ever thinks that good whose goodness it sees not. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. [ Ben Jonson ]

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. [ Emerson ]

He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Never be afraid of what is good; the good is always the road to what is true. [ Hamerton ]

Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness. [ Pascal ]

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. [ Carlyle ]

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. [ Landor ]

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was simply doing good. [ Whittier ]

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. [ Chapin ]

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distil it out. [ William Shakespeare ]

Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it. [ P. Desjardins ]

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. [ Lavater ]

Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life; it points to another world. [ Daniel Webster ]

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing. [ George Eliot ]

How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty world. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no creature so small and abject that it representeth not the goodness of God. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. [ Whittier ]

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. [ Thomas Sprat ]

If for anything he loved greatness, it was because therein he might exercise his goodness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. [ Ben Jonson ]

Be not simply good. Be good for something. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! [ Channing ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. [ George Eliot ]

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. [ Johnson ]

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. [ Joubert ]

True goodness is like the glow-worm; it shines most when no eyes, except those of heaven are upon it. [ Anonymous ]

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil. [ Carlyle ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine carrion. [ Thoreau ]

The cheerful live longest in life, and after it, in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshot of goodness. [ Bovee ]

As much virtue as there is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. [ E. H. Chapin ]

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. [ J. C. Hare ]

Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. [ La Roche ]

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows. [ J. F. Clarke ]

Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. [ Froude ]

The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere. [ Ramayana ]

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. [ Martial ]

In goodness, rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth; raised by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. [ Tourneur ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful is but one, and the most effectual of the ways of cultivating an appreciation of the Divine goodness. [ Bovee ]

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker. [ R. South ]

Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny, and your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. [ Macaulay ]

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. [ Luther ]

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. [ Bruyere ]

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness, - these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. [ Miss Sedgwick ]

How mighty is the human heart, with all its complicated energies; this living source of all that moves the world! this temple of liberty, this kingdom of heaven, this altar of God, this throne of goodness, so beautiful in holiness, so generous in love! [ Henry Giles ]

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]

There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him. [ Manning ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]