Goodness Quotes

1767 Goodness quotes by 1077 unique authors

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. — John of Ruysbroeck
Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are… — Willard Gaylin
I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness,… — Ginger Rogers
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings. — Bob Brown
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. — James Mark Baldwin
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I… — Julianna Baggott
I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad… — Pauline Collins
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing. — Pauline Collins
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. — Alexander Downer
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at… — Nigel Dennis
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and… — William A. Dembski
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a… — Charles Frazier
There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively. — Phil Anselmo
My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and… — Josh Henderson
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi
Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. — Bryant H. McGill
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite… — Swami Vivekananda
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who… — Margaret D. Nadauld
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out… — Lesslie Newbigin
Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast… — David Wilkerson
Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense. — Hubert Butler
What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? — Christian Harrison
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today… — Natalia Vodianova
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. — Yasunari Kawabata

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