Joe Meno Quotes

A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Virtue is harmony.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.