There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
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 ~
How goodness heightens beauty!
~By Milan Kundera ~
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
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 ~
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
~By Meir Kahane ~
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
~By Thomas Mann ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~By Chanakya ~
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
~By Athenaeus ~
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
~By Luther Campbell ~
Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
~By Victor Garber ~
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
~By Wojciech Jaruzelski ~
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
~By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
~By Abu Bakr ~
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
~By Lu Yu ~
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
~By Xun Zi ~
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 ~
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
~By Pablo Casals ~
Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.
~By Sean Bean ~
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.
~By Chris Cooper ~
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
~By Arthur Miller ~
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 ~
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
~By Milan Kundera ~
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 ~
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 ~
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
~By Beatrix Potter ~
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 ~
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
~By Edward Bond ~
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 ~
Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
~By Andy Griffith ~
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 ~
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
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 ~
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
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 ~
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
~By E. M. Forster ~
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
~By Billy Graham ~
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
~By William Dean Howells ~
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 ~
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
~By Edward Bond ~
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
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 ~
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
~By William Cobbett ~
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
~By Morarji Desai ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
~By Samuel Butler ~
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
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 ~
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 ~
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
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 ~
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
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