While it doesn't take much to be bad, it can be pretty challenging for a person to stay true, good and righteous in life. In a world full of temptations and wrong doers, it is always that much easier to give into the urge of committing a wrong. Maybe this is exactly why it is as difficult as it is to come across a good and righteous person. Almost everyone on this planet, at some point of time or the other, have committed acts that they may not be too proud of. But that doesn't make you a sinner - one can always redeem oneself! Find your way through this article for famous sayings and quotations on being good and righteous.
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Goodness Quotes
Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
 Carol Saline |
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis |
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee |
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump |
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump |
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul |
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I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.
Joseph Smith, Jr. |
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo |
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
Germaine Greer |
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Indira Gandhi |
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie |
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi |
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi |
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
Marie Curie |
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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan |
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul Sartre |
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.
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I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby |
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner |
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How goodness heightens beauty.
Milan Kundera |
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle |
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle |
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle |
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock |
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Val Kilmer |
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You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
Robert Plant |
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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
Robert Plant |
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
Dolly Parton |
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes |
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I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Titus |
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin |
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant |
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Ovid |
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid |
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud |
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda |
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank |
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank |
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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull |
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir |
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Sam Walton |
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I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
James Allen |
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen |
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No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius |
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice |
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John Donne |
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell |
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