Goodness Quotes

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.

My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.