Goodness Quotes

1767 Goodness quotes by 1077 unique authors

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or… — Meister Eckhart
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a… — Prentice Mulford
Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By… — Wilferd Peterson
Nothing is rarer than real goodness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when… — Gustave Flaubert
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great… — Sylvia Boorstein
When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having… — Marcus Aurelius
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is… — Thomas Merton
I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough. — Laozi
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good… — Mencius
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge… — Marianne Williamson
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil… — Desmond Tutu
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a… — Gautama Buddha
Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men… — Karen Walker
It is through the healing Atonement of Jesus Christ that we may have the strength to stand tall and strong and to have our souls… — Per G. Malm
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side… — Rabindranath Tagore
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens… — Marcus Aurelius
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
May the good God pardon all good men. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness. — Michel de Montaigne

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