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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Good and bad men are less than they seem. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
The devil himself is good when he is pleased. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
There are few good women who do not tire of their role. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. (Tutu Bishop Desmond)
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