Veronica Roth Quotes

My belief is that people are innately good and innately do want to help their fellow man.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

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

I'd have to say I've been a little of both, but definitely more nice than naughty.

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I pride myself on being kind.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

I wanna be a nice guy.

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.