Best 1197 quotes in «goodness quotes» category

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

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

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

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.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?