Goodness Quotes

'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.

How goodness heightens beauty!

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

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.

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.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

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.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

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

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

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?

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.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

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.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

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.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

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

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.