Goodness Quotes

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

Rise like the morning sun and let the good be done.

It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

There’s still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I’m not trying to say I’m not happy with the novels I’ve written in the past. But it always feels to me like there’s another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

When you have a strong vision to accomplish your dreams, the goodness starts moving through you.