Goodness Quotes

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

Religion, True, Real

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

Lie, Roots, Soil

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

God, Freedom, Country

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu

Good, Honesty, Honest

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss

Time, Night, Before

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Virtue, Bold, Fearful

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

Love, Truth, Else

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Giving, Enough

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Great, Same

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau

Investment, Fails

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Chanakya

Person, Wind, Direction

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela

Dreams, Beautiful, Two

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Henry David Thoreau

Bad, Tainted, Odor

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham

Great, Spiritual, Two

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 honours.
Lao Tzu

Cannot, Sun, Less

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
Basil Hume

Love, Great, God

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

Love, Beauty, Leadership

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael Jackson

Simple, Children, Everyone

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

Beauty, Amazing, Delusion

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Denzel Washington

Mind, Together, Getting

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, Greatness, Simplicity

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
Rodney Dangerfield

Good, Wife, Kids

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
Mitt Romney

Life, Leadership, Human

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
Mitt Romney

Power, Best, Strength

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager

Courage, Character, Kindness

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

Good, Great, History

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
Charles Stanley

God, Blessings, Him

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

Beauty, Men, Morning

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

Beauty, Virtue, Mysterious

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