Goodness is quiet courage—doing what’s right because it is right. As Václav Havel urged: “Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”💖

“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.” ~ Renée Zellweger

“Be not simply good; be good for something.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ~ Steve Martin

“A man is only as good as what he loves.” ~ Saul Bellow

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.” ~ Robert Heinlein

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” ~ William Shakespeare

“When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest height of our soul.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

“He that does good for good’s sake, seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.” ~ William Penn

“Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.” ~ H. A. Overstreet

“There is so much goodness in real life—do let us keep it out of our books.” ~ Norman Douglas

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” ~ Thomas Paine

“To talk goodness is not good. Only to do it is.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” ~ Buddha

“Be submissive to good, unbending to evil, gentle in generosity, untiring in love, just in all things.” ~ St. Columban

“Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.” ~ St. Basil the Great

“When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.” ~ Martin Walsh, Stranger Than Fiction