Goodness Quotes

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God’s honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.