Good Person Quotes

“Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I won't ever say I'm a good person. I don't want to be. I like who I am - and I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose me. Because it felt like that's what happened to all of them. They'd lost themselves to their monsters.”
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― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“Fenris was a good man and maybe the weakness of being good was that evil didn't occur to you.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart. Qualities such as ‘nice, honest, kind, happy, relaxed, sincere, innocent’ are frowned upon as weaknesses. Yet these values are the essence of a good person. Unfortunately, if you don’t keep the balance, they can be lost like sand through your fingers.”
― Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4

“It’s not about being good. It’s about releasing good.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Goodness is a bright flame within you. Use it to light up the world.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“He understood how the world worked—bad things happened to good people, bad people died happy in their beds. It happened every day. So why bother being good? The word itself was attached to a series of behaviors that was, at best, an abstraction.

A person profited nothing from being good.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices.”
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― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“You're a better person than I'll ever be."
"It's all about who you ask.”
― Kayla Krantz, Reanimate at Dawn

“Strength and intelligence without empathy wouldn’t make you a good person, let alone a good leader.”
― Picazo Basha, Shambala Sect

“Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Be a good person. Everything else is secondary.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“What does it mean, bad things happen to good people? I wonder. What does one have to do to be crowned a good person? What does it take to be considered a bad one? Who decides what is good and what is bad? Who makes that judgement? Who has that right?”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“During trial, the jury was forced to pick; is he wholesome or monstrous. But I never questioned that any of what they said about him was true. In fact I need you to know it was all true. The friendly guy who helps you move and assists senior citizens in the pool is the same guy who assaulted me. One person can be capable of both. Society often fails to wrap its head around the fact that these truths often coexist, they are not mutually exclusive. Bad qualities can hide inside a good person. That’s the terrifying part.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“He that does good to another does good mainly, or even only, for himself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Are you Muslim? I do not care! Are you Christian I do not care! Are you a Buddhist or a Jew? I don't care! Are you a good person, what I want to hear, what I want to see in you, that's what I'm looking for in you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of business local retailers, they automated their systems to reduce employees, and they got customers to be their own cashiers without getting paid for their labor, and yet to prove I’m a good person, I’m supposed to do more unpaid work for them to streamline their operation?”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“I have often wondered which would be better; being a good American or being a good person?
The nationality doesn't matter because it could be any country, but are they exclusive or inclusive?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Beauty lies in kinship of heart, not skinship of body.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Sciencelessness and senselessness are all okay, as long as they don't lead to heartlessness. Being good people is what being human is about, it has nothing to do with either faith or facts. Facts may help life, faith may help life, but none of it makes a person good on their own, unless the person genuinely has an active spirit of goodwill.

It's the person that makes science good, it's the person that makes faith good, not the other way around. A good scientist does good with their science, a good preacher does good with their faith. It all depends on the person - it depends on the person's heart, not on the science or on the faith.

Marie Curie was a scientist, but what makes her a great scientist is not her dedication to science, which is quite common in many scientists, but her indomitable and rather radical drive to use science to serve humankind, so much so that instead of monetizing on her hard-fought discovery of radium, she gave it away – she never filed a patent for it that is.

So to those aiming to be scientists, I say, if you are brilliant in head but cold at heart, you'd make an average scientist, but if there is warmth in your heart, you'd make a great scientist, even if you are average in head.

'Cause, that my friend, is what science is about. That is what intellect is about. And the same applies to every single tool with the potential for good. Your field of work doesn't make you a good person, if you are a good person, you make that field a good field.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“The irony of being a good person is that you understand a bad person very well.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“Don't stop being a good person because of bad people, because you're not being good for the bad in the world but to uphold the good in it.”
― Isabella Poretsis

“There's no such thing as a bad person; Just look at yourself, for example.”
― pfano percy rathogwa

“That beauty you speak of inside me has been ugly for a long, long, time, I’m not a good person Brian. You look after me so, you feel obligated to say these things to me but, I’m not a good person.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Nazar: “Self-Fulling Prophecy Realized”

“Live with what you’ll leave behind in mind.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Reel

“I’m not a nice person. I’m a good person. There’s a difference. Nice is all about being agreeable and easygoing. Good? That’s about doing what’s right, even when it’s tough, even when it’s not what people want to hear. Nice is saying yes to keep the peace. Good is saying no when it matters. So, if you’re looking for someone to sugarcoat things, I’m not your person. But if you want someone who’s got integrity and stands by their principles, I’m your go-to.”
― Life is Positive

“My father had raised me to walk in his footsteps, and those were big shoes to fill. He always said: Be more than a good person; be a person who does good things.”
― Dannika Dark, The Protector

“Doha wasn’t a very good friend.
But he was a good person.
And he was a great engineer.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon