Goodness Quotes

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.

Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.