Top 48 Goodness Greatness Quotes
#1. To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us.
It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.
Dallas Willard
#2. True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
Charles Caleb Colton
#4. Since, by your greatness, you
Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.
Cyril Tourneur
#5. Living to glorify God means doing everything ...
for Him,
His way,
to point to His greatness
and to reflect His goodness.
Joshua Harris
#6. Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.
Orrin Woodward
#7. Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus
#8. Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
#9. Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.
Matt Chandler
#11. Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of
a lifetime.
Sri Chinmoy
#12. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.
Yann Martel
#14. I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.
Ilchi Lee
#15. Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.
Oprah Winfrey
#17. There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.
William Arthur Ward
#19. When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#21. There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne
#22. Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness or goodness in their character.
Stephen R. Covey
#23. You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does
Sri Chinmoy
#24. Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#25. To be profitable, practice diligence.
To be successful, practice excellence.
To be influential, practice intelligence.
To be honorable, practice prudence.
To be blissful, practice kindness.
To be joyful, practice goodness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. The only thing that ever separated goodness from greatness it's acknowledging weaknesses.
Evans Biya
#27. There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent
Leo Tolstoy
#28. In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#30. Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.
George Gordon Byron
#31. God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
David Platt
#32. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi
#33. Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.
Ron Kaufman
#34. 'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.
Spark Matsunaga
#36. I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
Hillary Clinton
#37. Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
William Arthur Ward
#38. 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.
Jim Ramstad
#39. For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
#40. Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness of our Lord. It is the appropriate response to God's person, His provision, His power, His promises, and His plan.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#41. Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.
J.K. Rowling
#42. America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.
Howard Dean
#43. He felt the greatness and goodness of his purpose so sincerely: others who heard him plead for it, could not but feel it too.
Charlotte Bronte
#44. All I'm suggesting is that greatness and goodness is a potential in a majority of humans, not a reality.
Amish Tripathi
#45. For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
Philip Sidney
#46. The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid - that is the paradox of faith.
A.W. Tozer
#47. Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry