Best 1197 quotes in «goodness quotes» category

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

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.

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair?

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

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

Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

Injuries come only from the heart.

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.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

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

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that in me and has protected me through times when I should have died so I could fulfill my potential and do his work.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

I love your duck with all its ducky goodness!

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!

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

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.