Robert Burns Quotes

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Is she kind as she is fair?

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.