Goodness Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image ““Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.”” — François de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Goodness Strong enough
“There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“You don’t need to shout and tell the world that you’re a good person. Reveal your goodness through your actions.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.” — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“Greatness... lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength... He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Deserving ones don’t always get the acclaim. Some people are beautiful but unfortunate, struggling but failing, intelligent but poor, loving but despised. Those who… — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
“The only thing that ever separated goodness from greatness it's acknowledging weaknesses.” — Evans Biya Copy Share Image
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What great good, then, we are to expect and hope from participating in his divinity, when even his distress calms us and his weakness… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image