Goodness Quotes
1767 Goodness quotes by 1077 unique authors
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
— John Jay Chapman
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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…
— Cesar Chavez
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we…
— Deepak Chopra
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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…
— Grover Cleveland
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
— William Cobbett
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual…
— Walter Anderson
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another…
— Fiona Apple
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or…
— Daniel Dennett
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
— Laozi
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True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
— Confucius
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:…
— James Agee
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I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.
— Walter Russell
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Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father's goodness would provide…
— Derek Prince
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no…
— Eric Milner-White
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Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is…
— Philip Kapleau
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Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us…
— Frederick William Faber
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with…
— Leo Tolstoy
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God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
— Arthur W. Pink
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Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
— William Wilberforce
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
— Baltasar Gracian
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
— Orison Swett Marden
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We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
— John McCain
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