Goodness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
-- Abu Bakr -
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
-- Adyashanti -
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
-- Albert Camus -
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
-- Albert Einstein -
My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.
-- Albert Rosenfeld -
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
-- Alexander Downer -
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.
-- Ali Smith -
Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.
-- Alistair Begg -
Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
-- Andy Griffith -
Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.
-- Andy Stanley -
I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
-- Anne Lamott -
What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
-- Anne Revere -
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
-- Anthony de Mello -
Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.
-- Anushka Sharma -
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
-- Aristotle -
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
-- Arthur Guiterman -
For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria -
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
-- Athenaeus -
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
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.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Thank goodness my education was neglected.
-- Beatrix Potter -
The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
-- Bert Hellinger -
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.
-- Beth Moore -
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
-- Bhumibol Adulyadej -
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
-- Bob Brown -
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
-- Boethius -
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
-- Brennan Manning -
I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.
-- Brian Behlendorf -
Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
-- C. S. Lewis -
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
-- Cameron Dokey -
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.
-- Charlene Costanzo -
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
-- Charles Kingsley -
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
-- Clarice Lispector -
My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.
-- Constance Fenimore Woolson -
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.
-- Craig Groeschel -
We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
-- Dada Vaswani -
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
-- Daniel Berrigan -
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
-- David Morrissey -
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
-- David Platt -
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.
-- David Price -
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.
-- Denis Waitley -
I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures
-- Dennis Prager -
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
-- Desmond Tutu -
I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
-- Desmond Tutu -
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
-- Diane Frolov -
God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
-- Doc Severinsen -
No evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness.
-- Dorothy Fuldheim -
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
-- Edmund Gibson -
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
-- Edmund Spenser -
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
-- Edward Bond -
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg -
If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
-- Eric Gill -
We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
-- Erwin McManus -
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall -
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
-- F. H. Bradley -
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
-- F. H. Bradley -
There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
-- Fanny Lewald -
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
-- Flora Thompson -
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
-- Francis Spufford -
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.
-- Franz Wisner -
I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.
-- Garry Disher -
He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
-- Georg Brandes -
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
-- George Eliot -
Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.
-- George Harrison -
The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.
-- Guy Kawasaki -
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.
-- Hannah Flagg Gould -
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
You are remembered for your goodness.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
-- Henry David Thoreau
