Goodness Quotes

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

Integrity, Getting, Heaven

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
John Jay Chapman

Thinking, Victims, Wickedness

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
Morris Dees

Education, Equality, Children

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

Love, Death, Thoughts

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett

Men, Respect, May

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
Anne Lamott

God, Jesus, Seems

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Christopher Marlowe

Beauty, Best, Estate

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.
Carly Fiorina

Hair, Goes, Million

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr

Evil, Solid, Vice

How goodness heightens beauty!
Milan Kundera

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Islom Karimov

Life, Good, Live

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks

Good, Strong, Someone

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
Jon Bon Jovi

Long, Thought, Song

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry Adams

God, Happy, Remember

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow

Love, Men, Company

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.
Carrie Underwood

Love, Battle, Trying

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
Paula Deen

Good, Morning, Give

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Ivan Turgenev

Nature, Art, Freedom

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
Ashley Montagu

Success, Good, Learning

I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.
Gordon Ramsay

Volatile, Sake, Gordon

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
George Saunders

Evil, Football, Two

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Anne Rice

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

Faith, Work, Everything

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
Jordin Sparks

Change, Cool, Moving

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Meir Kahane

Strength, Above, Middle

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
James Dyson

Nothing, Energy, Nuclear

Thank goodness I've saved my money.
Kyle Chandler

Money, Thank, Saved

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

Beautiful, Heart, Giving

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

God, Future, True

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