You might be the ideal role model and a good person that everyone wants to be around. But at times, being a good person might seem quite challenging, especially when everything might be going against you.
To be good you have to be polite, well mannered, treat individuals with respect and set an example. Does it seem like a lot of work? Well, it is not all that difficult if we think about treating others the way we would like to be treated ourselves. Being good might not seem all that daunting after all. It doesn’t need to feel like walking on eggshells or constantly putting others before you. In the words of the great Anna (from Frozen), it’s about doing the next right thing.
Whatever your situation is, check out our collection of quotes on being a good person for inspiration on being good.
“I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations.”
John Bradshaw
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
Mother Teresa
“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
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
W. Edwards Deming
“I think if you’re a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you.”
Jessie James Decker
“Be the kind of person who not only pretends to be good but is also a really good person.”
Nitin Namdeo
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”
Nelson Mandela
“If you’re a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.”
Diane von Furstenberg
“Those who are really good do not give up their goodness because of bad people.”
Nitin Namdeo
“I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”
Lionel Messi
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
John Wooden
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
Calvin Coolidge
“When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
Taylor Swift
“If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important – and you do that by being genuine and humble.”
Nelson Mandela
“The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is in some way to make that person’s life a little bit better to live.”
John Assaraf
“It doesn’t matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going.”
Brian Tracy
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
Tony Robbins
“I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.”
Evan Rachel Wood
“Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.”
Celine Dion
“A good person always seeks good in others.”
Nitin Namdeo
“Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.”
Derek Jeter
“Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.”
David LaChapelle
“Money will make you more of what you already are. If you’re not a nice person, money’s going to make you a despicable individual. If you’re a good person, money’s going to make you a better person.”
Bob Proctor
“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
“Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn’t good enough.”
Gurbaksh Chahal
“How good a person you are depends only on how much compassion and sympathy you have in your heart for others.”
Nitin Namdeo
“Becoming a good person is nothing more than changing your perspective.”
Nitin Namdeo
“Listening to people and giving everyone a voice is one of the greatest things you can do.”
Jeet Banerjee
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Being a good human being, a warm hearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.”
Dalai Lama
“No matter what happens in life be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
Anonymous
“Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it, not as a reflection of their character. but as a reflection of yours.”
Dave Willis
“Be good to people. You will be remembered more for your kindness than any level of success you could possibly attain.”
Mandy Hale
“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
“Never regret being a good person to the wrong people. Your kindness says everything about you. Their behavior says everything about them.”
Anonymous
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
Calvin Coolidge
“If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.”
Deepak Chopra
“It’s not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.”
Honore de Balzac
“Every morning, we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better.”
Alan Bonner
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
“At the end of the day, if you feel like you’re a good person, and your intentions are good, then that’s all that matters.”
Madison Beer
“A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.”
Harvey Mackay
“When you believe in something and you are a good person, good things happen.”
Junior dos Santos
“Your beliefs don’t make you a better person. Your behavior does.”
Shukhraj Dhillon
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
“I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn’t guarantee that others will be good people, too. You only have control over yourself and how you choose to be as a person. As for others, you can only choose to accept them or walk away.”
Unknown
“People don’t change at their core. If you’re a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.”
Karrine Steffans
“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
“Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Mark Twain
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
Anne Frank
“There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.”
Gautama Buddha
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.”
Jim Kwik
“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Winston Churchill
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
“Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.”
Mario Fernandez
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Stephen Covey
“I am thankful for all those difficult people in my life, they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.”
Anonymous
“Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you – to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.”
Lori Deschene
“There’s always room to be a better person. Always.”
Sonya Teclai
“Gratitude, compassion and kindness are pillars to make you a better person.”
Invajy
“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
Dalai Lama
“The best portion of a good man’s life—his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
William Wordsworth
“To be a good person you just need to focus on goodness and positivity.”
Nitin Namdeo
“There is zero chance of being a good person without doing good for others.”
Mehmet Murat ildan
“I’m a good person. In most ways. But I’m beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn’t count for anything very much, if you’re a bad person in one way.”
Nick Hornby
“Goodness is a bright flame within you. Use it to light up the world.”
Frank Sonnenberg
“If everyone were a good person, it’d obviously be a better world.”
Aaron Paul
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Plato
“We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.”
Marianne Williamson
“Believing you’re a good person and actually being one are two completely different things.”
Anonymous
“The thing, in general, about being a good person is just doing the right thing as often as possible.”
Sami Zayn
“Be a good person. But don’t waste time proving it.”
Anonymous
“Be a good person. Everything else is secondary.”
Frank Sonnenberg
“A peaceful heart is a reward alone for being a good person.”
Anonymous
“There is no way that a person who treats others badly when he is unhappy is a good person! A good person is a person who treats others well even when unhappy!”
Mehmet Murat İldan
“Maybe there’s no one right way to be a good person, and maybe there’s no advisory board signing off on who does and doesn’t deserve badges.”
Hannah Paasch
“If you are a good person you don’t need to be perfect, just be good.”
Nitin Namdeo
“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.”
Antonin Scalia
“Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.”
Imam Ali
“It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.”
Mark Harmon
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”
E.H. Chapins
“Being a good person guarantees you nothing in this world except that you are part of the solution and not the problem. Let that be reason enough.”
Ray A. Davis
“Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.”
Nelson Mandela
“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.”
Chanakyu
“There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“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
“Being a good person is very attractive, no one can ignore you.”
Nitin Namdeo
Wrapping Up
It is always better to do good than to do bad. We only have one life to live and if we can do some good, it is what will make a positive change for the better in a world that is at times in turmoil. We hope the quotes on being a good person have inspired you to do your best even at the toughest times in life.
