Goodness Quotes · Page 54

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore…

— Walter Savage Landor

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves…

— William Ellery Channing

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hurricane Irene's advance coverage was heavy on worst-case scenarios. Thank goodness they didn't pan out.

— Steve Rushin

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

— Sonja Morgan

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When the world seems crazy, chaotic, destructive, you can choose to create your own world of peace and love. You do not…

— Anonymous

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to…

— Aristotle

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut…

— Plautus

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by…

— Pope Francis

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The…

— Frederick William Faber

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm…

— Leigh Hunt

The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me,…

— Franz Kafka

“Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed –…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Everybody is Beautiful and Unique in Their Own Special Way, Beauty goes Beyond the Outer Appearance. I think it's More Important to…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,…

— Stefan Zweig

“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away;…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with…

— Lance Armstrong

There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my…

— Olivia Newton-John

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what…

— Itzhak Perlman

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is…

— Ayn Rand

A nice person is like a wind... you never know what's inside their heart but you always feel their sincerity.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do…

— Walker Percy

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

— Arthur Desmond

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

— Albert Schweitzer

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

— John Waters

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of…

— Anna Friel

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

— Michel de Montaigne

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

— James Mark Baldwin

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a…

— Jeremy Collier

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

— Robert Penn Warren

“I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.”

— Daniel Nayeri

Oh my goodness; the highlight of my career. I couldn't pick a show or a moment because that would just be impossible.

— Darren Boyd

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

— Benjamin Franklin

I know some people not happy with me, because I am not so good. but few people surely love, because they know…

— Anonymous

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at…

— F. H. Bradley

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”

— Roy T. Bennett