Goodness Quotes

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

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.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

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?

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

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

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

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

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.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

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.

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.

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

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

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

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.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

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.