striving for goodness Quotes

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another... And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.