Definition of Goodness

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Definition of Goodness
	Goodness The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc. Related Definitions: Any, As, Being, Benevolence, Character, Conduct, Disposition, Excellence, Food, Good, Goodness, In, Kindness, Of, Quality, Soil, The, Timber, Various, Virtue

Goodness Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Goodness Translations

goodness in Dutch is goedheid
goodness in German is Tugend
goodness in Norwegian is godhet
goodness in Spanish is benignidad, bondad
goodness in Swedish is godhet

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