Goodness Quotes

1767 Goodness quotes by 1077 unique authors

I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to… — Jack Nicklaus
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the… — William James
Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins.… — Carlo Borromeo
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want… — John Dos Passos
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished — Nelson Mandela
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than… — P.G. Wodehouse
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is… — Dwight L. Moody
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust… — Frank Borman
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It… — Henry Van Dyke
Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes. — Leon Brown
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That… — Phillips Brooks
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That… — Phillips Brooks
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of… — Robert South
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. — Charles Caleb Colton
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be — Paul Arden
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward… — Walt Whitman
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim… — W. Somerset Maugham
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. — Elbert Hubbard
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine… — Thomas a Kempis
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for… — Thornton T. Munger

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