Goodness Quotes

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

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

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

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.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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.

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

How goodness heightens beauty!

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.