Goodness Quotes

I love your duck with all its ducky goodness!

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

You are remembered for your goodness.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Injuries come only from the heart.

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.