Goodness Quotes

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
Nadia Comaneci

Positive, Yourself, Around

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu

Love, Live, Made

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Good, Another, Succeed

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert

Judge, Greatest, Book

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Grover Cleveland

Men, Powerful, American

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean

Life, Fake, Real

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strength, Mind, Heart

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
Morarji Desai

Good, Selfish, Human

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Desmond Tutu

Trying, Hear, White

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.
Ann Romney

Love, Work, Women

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
Andy Griffith

Good, Happy, Pretty

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, After, Sweet

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
Luther Campbell

Work, Respect, Hard

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
Alphonsus Liguori

God, Hope, Mother

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

Leadership, Men, Leader

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Bertolt Brecht

Good, Long, Demand

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Love, True, End

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nature, Power, Against

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
Shania Twain

Love, Hope, Lost

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Dennis Prager

Good, Strength, Weak

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne

Nature, Good, Jealousy

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Education, Best, Book

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
Herman Melville

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
Anne Hathaway

Good, Anymore, Capacity

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness, Means, Ends

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Arthur Miller

Judge, Sometimes

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice

Evil, Possible, Difficulty

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang

Good, Today, Kindness

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera

Power, Freedom, True

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