Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! ~By Daniel Boone ~
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ~By Grover Cleveland ~
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart. ~By Robert Mondavi ~
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ~By Anne Rice ~
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. ~By Matthew Henry ~
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. ~By Bertolt Brecht ~
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ~By Dennis Potter ~
Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. ~By Andy Griffith ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. ~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness. ~By Aaron Eckhart ~
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ~By John Updike ~
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. ~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~By Leo Tolstoy ~
I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness! ~By Kristin Davis ~
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. ~By Billy Graham ~
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. ~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. ~By John Dryden ~
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ~By Phillips Brooks ~
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. ~By Charles Perrault ~
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen. ~By Hattie McDaniel ~
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ~By Menander ~
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. ~By John Hope Franklin ~
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ~By Northrop Frye ~
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ~By Robert Plant ~
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. ~By Lord Mountbatten ~
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. ~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. ~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ~By George Combe ~
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. ~By Jewel ~
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ~By Anne Rice ~
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. ~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. ~By Meister Eckhart ~
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity. ~By Heinrich Mann ~
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ~By John Ruskin ~
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ~By John Jay Chapman ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ~By Albert Einstein ~
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ~By Beatrix Potter ~
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. ~By Athenaeus ~
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. ~By Martin Sheen ~
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. ~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ~By Walter Savage Landor ~
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. ~By Daniel Morgan ~
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. ~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. ~By Samuel Butler ~
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. ~By John Woolman ~
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~By Dr. Seuss ~
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He. ~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. ~By Wojciech Jaruzelski ~
You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. ~By Nadia Comaneci ~
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. ~By Barbara Walters ~
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. ~By William Ames ~
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. ~By Morris Dees ~
I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds. ~By Carrie Underwood ~
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ~By Abu Bakr ~
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness! ~By Ivor Novello ~
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. ~By Arthur Miller ~
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. ~By Jim Ramstad ~
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. ~By Ivan Turgenev ~
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect. ~By Luther Campbell ~
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. ~By Denis Waitley ~
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. ~By Lao Tzu ~
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. ~By Louise Brown ~
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~By Antonio Porchia ~
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. ~By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ~
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him. ~By William Rowley ~
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. ~By Josephine Hart ~
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ~By E. M. Forster ~
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. ~By Nelson Mandela ~
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ~By Xun Zi ~
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. ~By William Cobbett ~
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~By Herman Melville ~
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. ~By Desmond Tutu ~
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ~By Thomas Mann ~
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. ~By Samuel Butler ~
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. ~By James Prescott Joule ~
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. ~By Michael Jackson ~
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. ~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ~By Francis Bacon ~
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. ~By Milan Kundera ~
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. ~By Denzel Washington ~
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation. ~By John Banner ~
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ~By Mark Twain ~
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ~By Gustave Flaubert ~
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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