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Goodness Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- 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…
- For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is…
- In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
- He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and…
- If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain…
- but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it…
- Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
- What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness.…
- If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you…
More Goodness Quotes
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings… — Henry Adams
- Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire
- Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — Saul Bellow
- If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we… — Annie Besant
- A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also… — Bhumibol Adulyadej
- For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue
- May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! — Daniel Boone