Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

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

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

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

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

It is by doing good that we become good.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler.

People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Only those live who do good.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

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

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

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

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good.