Being a good person does so many good things to the world. When you do good to other people, you’ll receive the same thing back. If you need a little inspiration or want to understand what it means to be a good person, these quotes we compiled will surely give the answers you need.
Quotes About Being a Good Person
1. Believing you’re a good person and actually being one are two completely different things.
2. Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
3. Being a good person does not mean you have to put up with other people’s crap.
4. Being a good person doesn’t depend on your religion, your race or your skin color or your culture. It depends on how good is your heart and how good you treat others.
5. Never regret being a good person, to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and their behavior says enough about them. – Marc & Angel
6. A good person can make another person good, it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society, other persons will also be good. – Bhumibol Adulyadej
7. A peaceful heart is a reward alone for being a good person.
8. Be a good person. But don’t waste time proving it.
9. You can be a good person with a kind heart and still say no.
10. No matter what happens in life be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
11. I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. – John Bradshaw
12. I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person. – Tim Duncan
13. To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it’s family or friends or co-workers, I think it’s the most important thing. Whether you have success or don’t have it, whether you’re a good person is all that matters. – Brenda Song
14. I think if you’re a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you. – Jessie James Decker
15. Be good to people. You will be remembered more for your kindness than any level of success you could possibly attain. – Mandy Hale
16. If everyone were a good person, it’d obviously be a better world. – Aaron Paul
17. If you’re a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants. – Diane von Furstenberg
18. My dad brought me up to be a good person. – Courtney Eaton
19. I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. – Lionel Messi
20. Success to me is being a good person, treating people well. – David LaChapelle
21. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King
22. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato
23. Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests. – Derek Jeter
24. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller
25. It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people. – Mark Harmon
26. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
27. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami
28. They say that some people come in our life as blessings and others as lessons, but to be specific and precise only simple and humble people with the utmost simplicity in their lives only come as blessings in a person’s life. – Anuj Somany
29. The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them the point is that I know a good person when I see one. – Enid Blyton
30. There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from. – Catherynne M. Valente
31. Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.
32. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they are bad people, it means they’re human.
33. Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. – Miguel De Cervantes
34. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
35. When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. – Harold Kushner
36. The greatest pleasure I have known is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident. – Charles Lamb
37. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. – Ken Keyes Jr.
38. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. – Francis Bacon
39. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. – Amelia Earhart
40. No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing. – Lewis F. Korns
41. How much easier it is to act kindly and naturally to our fellow men, and even to the domestic, useful and faithful animals about us, than to effect a rude and boisterous demeanor, which is sure not only to make others despise us, but on reflection to cause us to despise ourselves. – Nicias Ballard Cooksey
42. Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight, always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – J. M. Barrie
43. Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
44. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. – George Sand
45. Men are cruel, but man is kind. – Rabindranath Tagore
46. Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
47. Do your little bit of good where you are, its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu
48. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. – Dave Barry
49. You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor
50. It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
51. The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.
52. Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher. – Oprah winfrey
53. Company of good people is like walking in a shop of perfume. Whether you buy the perfume or not, you are bound to receive the fragrance.
54. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss. – Lee Iacocca
55. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. – Woody Allen
56. What happens when good people are put into an evil place1 Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? – Philip Zimbardo
57. Being a good person does not depend on your religion, status, race, color, political views or culture. It depends on how you treat others.
58. Create a life that feels good on the inside not one that just looks good on the outside.
59. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank
60. Don’t ever regret knowing someone in your life. Good people will give you happiness, bad people will give you experience, while the worst people will give you memories.
61. Dream big, work hard, stay focused & surround yourself with good people.
62. I have a lot of good people in my actual life, but I will say that it’s a strange time that we live in – it’s easy to make friends and to make connections through social, and if you are a good-hearted person, sometimes you can just assume people are who they say they are, and that isn’t always the case, which is why catfish is successful.
63. Good food, good people, good times. Life’s too short for anything less.
64. People say, find good people & leave bad ones but it should be Find the good in people & ignore the bad in them. Because no one is perfect.
65. Never test good people. They are like mercury. They’ll not break when hit. They’ll just disappear from your life silently.
66. Good people bring out the good in people.
67. The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people. – Napoleon
68. We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity. – Sarah Palin
69. I’m a good person, but with many defects. – Enrique Iglesias
70. The only people I need in my life are the ones that prove to me they need me in theirs.
71. Dear god, I sincerely thank you for the good people around me.
72. I like normal, simple, good people. – Sandra Bullock
73. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
74. Trees are like good people who care for others. They have to keep standing in the sun but they give shade to others. Whatever fruits they bear they do not eat themselves, but give them to others. How kind they are. – Vikramaditya
75. A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God. – Suzy Kassem
76. Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people’s misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much. – Shannon L. Alder
77. The language of light can only be decoded by the heart. – Suzy Kassem
78. If you want to make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. you just have to care. – Karen Salmansohn
79. The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart. Qualities such as ‘nice, honest, kind, happy, relaxed, sincere, innocent’ are frowned upon as weaknesses. Yet these values are the essence of a good person. Unfortunately, if you don’t keep the balance, they can be lost like sand through your fingers. – Fennel Hudson
80. It is easy to be a good person when times are good. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
81. If Hitch were a person, he’d be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It’s depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am. – McCall Hoyle
82. You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good. – Mehmet Murat ildan
83. A person who appreciates someone doing something good is also a good person. – Saif Ullah
84. Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
85. Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. – Roy T. Bennett
86. The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
87. Expecting the world to be nice to you, just because you are, it’s like expecting that a lion doesn’t eat you just because you didn’t eat him. – Tomás Mendes
88. You are only a bad person if you do bad things. That’s not an acquittal. The counterpoint is that you are only a good person if you do good things. – Joseph Fink
89. Finally, I said, very quietly, ‘I don’t know if I’m one of the good guys anymore. – Jim Butcher
90. She’s done so much to care for others, whether it’s inviting inner city kids into her school to keep them out of trouble and away from gangs, or taking me and the others in every summer, or just doing so much to help her students with their dreams. – Kailin Gow
91. Why do you eat? Why to sleep? If you cant be a trustworthy person, cant be a true lover, cant be a good friend, why do you curse others when you are not perfect.
92. Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. – Peace Pilgrim
93. Humanity should be our race. Love should be our religion.
94. We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. – Albert Einstein
95. All I have is a sense of duty toward all people and an attachment to those with whom I have become intimate. – Albert Einstein
96. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things. – Stephen Hawking
97. One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai
98. Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. – Marie Curie
99. Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity. – Ralph Nader
100. The more we take, the less there is for future generations. – Phil Kingston
101. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi
102. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein
103. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. – Malcolm X
104. Trying hard and being a good person didn’t always mean good things would happen to you. But it did mean that others might try on your behalf. – Lisa Graff
105. Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are. – Chief Red Eagle
106. I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse. – Mark Twain
107. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. – Charlie Chaplin
108. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King Jr
109. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. – Martin Luther King Jr
110. I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. – Jackie Robinson
111. Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. – Plato
112. Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. – Rumi
113. To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
114. This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. – Robert Green Ingersoll
115. I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one. – David Hockney
116. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
117. I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. – Anne Frank
118. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. – Leo Tolstoy
119. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. – Theodore Roosevelt
120. To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt
121. You can’t expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you’re thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you’re seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract. – Wayne Dyer
122. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller
123. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. – Mahatma Gandhi
124. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa
125. This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong
126. Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important. – Pope Francis
127. The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. – Albert Einstein
128. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. – Albert Einstein
129. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. – Albert Einstein
130. The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can’t believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes. – Stephen Hawking
132. If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion. – Dalai Lama
133. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela
134. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. – Nelson Mandela
135. We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values. – Kofi Annan
136. The only real nation is humanity. – Paul Farmer
137. The simplest way to be happy is to do good. – Helen Keller
138. Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep. – Pope Francis
139. Truth is on the side of the oppressed. – Malcolm X
140. The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. – Karen Horney
141. Comedy is the only hope for humanity. – Roseanne Barr
142. The moment we stop fighting for each other, that’s the moment that we lose our humanity. – Adrian Hemlsley
143. The human race has improved everything, but the human race. – Adlai E. Stevenson
144. It’s all about humanity, humility, and integrity. – Debra Wilson
145. And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. – John Steinbeck
146. Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn’t good enough. – Gurbaksh Chahal
147. I don’t believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. – Robert Mapplethorpe
148. When you’re successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you’re down and out, you’re all alone. That’s why it’s important to be a good person. Because whether you’re a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you. – Suresh Raina
149. Let’s be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not. – Joel Osteen