Goodness Quotes

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

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!

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

I close my eyes, think positive thoughts, and breathe goodness in and out

That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

Let goodness go with the doing.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!

A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you!

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.