I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. — Edmund Gibson Copy Share Image
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the… — Seneca Copy Share Image
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is an active decision to turn toward goodness in your thoughts and behavior.” — Gina Simmons Schneider Copy Share Image
“Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first” — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“A person’s general goodness is in direct correlation to the force, or quality, of the kind thoughts he or she generates.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up… — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
“Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that… — Megan Jacobson Copy Share Image
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that America is born in the world is to demonstrate an openness and a goodness and a compassion… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to… — T. M. Scanlon Copy Share Image
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man;… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
“They have never bothered to think the matter out for themselves, but have heard about Him from others, and have put belief… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Non-attachment grounded in faith allows good to return to you.” — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
