Goodness Quotes

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

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

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

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

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

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

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

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

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

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

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.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

That good diffused may more abundant grow.

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

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.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

How near to good is what is fair!

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

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 honors.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.

I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.