Goodness Quotes
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. (Quote by - John Wesley)
How goodness heightens beauty! (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power. it's the goodness. (Quote by - Robert Plant)
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. (Quote by - James Prescott Joule)
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. (Quote by - William Penn)
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
But goodness alone is never enough A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made. (Quote by - Donald G. Mitchell)
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. (Quote by - George Combe)
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. (Quote by - Andy Griffith)
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration. Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. (Quote by - Frank Harris)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
Can one desire too much of a good thing? (Quote by - Cervantes)
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. (Quote by - Alex Noble)
If people are truly, madly, deeply in love with each other, they will find a way. (Quote by - Similar)
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adam)
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. (Quote by - Carl W.)
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. (Quote by - George Linnaeus Banks)
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. (Quote by - Daniel Morgan)
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. (Quote by - Wojciech Jaruzelski)
All good is hard All evil is easy Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy Stay away from easy. (Quote by - Scott Alexander)
Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them. (Quote by - Victor Garber)
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! (Quote by - Daniel Boone)
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. (Quote by - Richard Ben-Veniste)
I am easily satisfied with the very best. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. (Quote by - meelia)
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. (Quote by - Dennis Potter)
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. (Quote by - Shaquille ONeal)
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. (Quote by - Martin Sheen)
For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can. (Quote by - Epitaph)
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. (Quote by - Islom Karimov)
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. (Quote by - Benjamin Haydon)
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. (Quote by - Pablo Casals)
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive. (Quote by - Dorothy Rowe)
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. (Quote by - Jim Ramstad)
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. (Quote by - Chanakya)
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. (Quote by - William Penn)
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. (Quote by - Anne Rice)
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
The Answer to the Great Question Of.Life, the Universe and Everything.(is) Forty-two. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can. (Quote by - Isocrates)
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good. (Quote by - Bishop Desmond Tutu)
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words. (Quote by - Calvin)
That good diffused may more abundant grow. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all. (Quote by - Nigel Dennis)
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. (Quote by - Basil C. Hume)
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. (Quote by - Jewel)
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. (Quote by - E. Joseph Cossman)
The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. (Quote by - Jan Van Ruysbroeck)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
The best way to waste your life, . is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. (Quote by - meimei)
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. (Quote by - Lord Mountbatten)
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts (Quote by - Tibetan Proverb)
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. (Quote by - Lionel Blue)
We are here on earth to do good for others What the others are here for, I don't know. (Quote by - W H Auden)
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. (Quote by - Cicero)
I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you. (Quote by - Colin Raye)
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation. (Quote by - John Banner)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. (Quote by - Alphonsus Liguori)
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. (Quote by - Doc Severinsen)
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent. (Quote by - Mohandas K Gandhi)
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. (Quote by - James M. Baldwin)
A glass is good, and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together. (Quote by - John O'Keeffe)
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. (Quote by - Walter Savage Londor)
Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option (Quote by - gabrielita)
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
Our true wealth is the good we do in this world None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves. (Quote by - Mohammed)
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
What's the good of it? for whose advantage? (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, jr)
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. (Quote by - Ashley Montagu)
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. (Quote by - Xun Zi)
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
I have known many good people who did not believe in God But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. (Quote by - John Lovejoy Elliott)
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. (Quote by - John Woolman)
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Live a good life If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones I am not afraid. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. (Quote by - Richard Le Gallienne)
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. (Quote by - Edwidge Danticat)
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty The ordinary objects of human endeavour property, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. (Quote by - Similar)
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. (Quote by - John Jakes)
The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between. (Quote by - Robert Blair)
Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows. (Quote by - John Milton)
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. (Quote by - MWhitner)
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons. (Quote by - Bruce Vento)
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. (Quote by - Jamie Paolinetti)
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. (Quote by - John Hope Franklin)
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. (Quote by - William Cobbett)
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. (Quote by - xFenderx)
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. (Quote by - Georg Brandes)
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. (Quote by - John Dryden)
In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him. (Quote by - If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. (Quote by - William Rowley)
No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. (Quote by - Edward Bond)
I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds. (Quote by - Carrie Underwood)
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. (Quote by - Epictetus)
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity. (Quote by - Rupert Brooke)
You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. (Quote by - Nadia Comaneci)
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. (Quote by - William James)
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. (Quote by - Meister Eckhart)
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too. (Quote by - Mairead Maguire)
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. (Quote by - Confucius)
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. (Quote by - David Grayson)
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. (Quote by - Morarji Desai)
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (Quote by - George Linnaeus Banks)
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He. (Quote by - Alphonsus Liguori)
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep. wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.' (Quote by - samwilson)
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Quote by - Epicurus)
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. (Quote by - Timothy Radcliffe)
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. (Quote by - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character.Would you slow down? Or speed up? (Quote by - shutterfly)
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good. (Quote by - John Fountain)
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. (Quote by - Stephen King)
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. (Quote by - A. (Quote by - J. (Quote by - Muste)
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft)
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security (Quote by - Anand_Singh)
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Quote by - Plato)
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. (Quote by - Bhumibol Adulyadej)
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. (Quote by - Akhenaton)
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)
I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us. (Quote by - Brian Behlendorf)
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. (Quote by - Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness. (Quote by - Aaron Eckhart)
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. (Quote by - Menander)
Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. (Quote by - Josephine Hart)
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? (Quote by - Bible)
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. (Quote by - William Law)
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. (Quote by - Christopher Dawson)
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! (Quote by - Julia C.R. Dorr)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad People are either charming or tedious. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. (Quote by - Charles Perrault)
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. (Quote by - imsocarly)
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. (Quote by - Paul Ricoeur)
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect. (Quote by - Luther Campbell)
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. (Quote by - Josh Groban)
Look at the facts of the world You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice Things refuse to be mismanaged long. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. (Quote by - John Dryden)
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. (Quote by - Alan Alda)
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. (Quote by - Jane Addams)
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, the greatest, but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. (Quote by - Sydney J Harris)
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway. (Quote by - Sean Bean)
Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. (Quote by - George Crabbe)
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. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Tears are words the heart can't express (Quote by - Jus)
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. (Quote by - Edward Bond)
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. (Quote by - Michael Jackson)
For all their luxury was doing good. (Quote by - Sir Samuel Garth)
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. (Quote by - Athenaeus)
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. (Quote by - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. (Quote by - William Ames)
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. (Quote by - Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib)
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity. (Quote by - Heinrich Mann)
Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season. (Quote by - Troy Aikman)
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. (Quote by - Bhumibol Adulyadej)
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. (Quote by - Paramahansa Yogananda)
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart. (Quote by - Robert Mondavi)
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. (Quote by - George H W Bush)
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. (Quote by - Beatrix Potter)
There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. (Quote by - Tom Krause)
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. (Quote by - Thomas Mann
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. (Quote by - Morris Dees)
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? (Quote by - Theodor Geisel)
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. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. (Quote by - Denzel Washington)
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make. (Quote by - Lu Yu)
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. (Quote by - Louise Brown)
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness! (Quote by - Ivor Novello)
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. (Quote by - James Joyce)
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. (Quote by - MWhitner)
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. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. (Quote by - Anne Rice)
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. (Quote by - Nathaniel Parker Willis)
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. (Quote by - William Dean Howells)
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. (Quote by - John Updike)
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. (Quote by - Sven Goran Eriksson)
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. (Quote by - John Woolman)
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. (Quote by - Bible)
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs! (Quote by - Bobby Thomson)
