B. C. Forbes Quotes

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

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

It is no easy task to be good.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

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

Virtue is harmony.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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

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

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

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

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Most important is be a good man.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.