I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation. — John Banner Copy Share Image
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our… — Charles Shaar Murray Copy Share Image
So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A good person may die, may not last for many years but his deeds will be remembered everyday... for memories are forever... — MHARWHYN Copy Share Image
What ever your going through people, don't let it hold you down or let it govern the goodness in you. Stay Positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness. — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
I have come to learn that goodness is transnational, transcultural, and trans-ethnic. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love. — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
