Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
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 ~
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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 ~
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 ~
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~By Georg Brandes ~
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
~By Islom Karimov ~
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
~By William Cobbett ~
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 ~
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
~By Alan Alda ~
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
~By Stephen King ~
I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
~By Bobby Thomson ~
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 ~
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
~By Daniel Boone ~
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
~By George Combe ~
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 ~
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
~By David Grayson ~
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 ~
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
~By Arthur Miller ~
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
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 ~
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
~By Abu Bakr ~
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
~By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
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 ~
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
~By Basil C. Hume ~
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
~By William Law ~
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 ~
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
~By Saul Bellow ~
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
~By Bruce Vento ~
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
~By William Dean Howells ~
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
~By Lionel Blue ~
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 ~
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
~By Josephine Hart ~
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
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 ~
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 makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
~By Matthew Henry ~
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 ~
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~By Chanakya ~
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
~By Menander ~
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
~By Athenaeus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
~By Samuel Butler ~
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
~By John Woolman ~
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 ~
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
~By Lao Tzu ~
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 ~
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 ~
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
~By William Shakespeare ~
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
~By Ivor Novello ~
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 ~
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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 ~
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 ~
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
~By Edward Bond ~
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 ~
How goodness heightens beauty!
~By Milan Kundera ~
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 ~
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
~By Frank Harris ~
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
~By Anne Rice ~
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
~By Cesar Chavez ~
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
~By Wojciech Jaruzelski ~
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
~By John Banner ~
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
~By Xun Zi ~
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