Goodness Quotes

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

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.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

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.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

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

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

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

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

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.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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

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.

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

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

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

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.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

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

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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

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.