Goodness Quotes

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.

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.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is 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.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

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

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

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

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.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.