Goodness Quotes

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

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.

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

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

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

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.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

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.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

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.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.