Top 100 Quotes About Goodness
#1. There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and
Aristotle.
#2. There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent
Leo Tolstoy
#3. Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character.
A.W. Tozer
#6. I looked at you ... saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful.
Richelle Mead
#8. Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.
Heather Wolf
#9. The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. Who tries? You try, your dad tries, average people try. And for their attempts at goodness, average people are mugged by strangers, molested by predatory uncles, massacred by their own governments.
Nicole Peeler
#11. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love ... Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#13. Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#15. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?
Sherman Alexie
#16. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
Anthony Liccione
#17. Goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness ...
John Geddes
#18. 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.
Jeff Miller
#19. We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.
Colin Meloy
#20. God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.
Jocelyn Gibb
#22. Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,
Mohsin Hamid
#23. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.
Eric Gill
#25. Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
Charles Kingsley
#26. A religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.
Michael S. Horton
#27. In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.
Bill Johnson
#29. America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we've been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don't want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids get theirs.
Heather Choate Davis
#30. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
Aldous Huxley
#31. We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.
John Eldredge
#32. I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Denzel Washington
#33. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.
Gregor Golob
#34. This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.
Wendell Berry
#35. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Patricia Luce Chapman
#36. Not all good things come from good people.
Toba Beta
#37. Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.
Wes Fesler
#38. Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If
Alister E. McGrath
#39. Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!
James Beard
#40. It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
Eric Maisel
#41. 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
#42. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#44. You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
Johan Huizinga
#45. We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.
Common
#46. What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
#47. Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
Cassandra Clare
#48. Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.
Etienne Gilson
#49. Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.
Amit Ray
#50. Sometimes people, when left alone, can hear their own hatefulness for themselves. Sometimes goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is.
Sylvain Reynard
#51. Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond
#52. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy Rooney
#54. We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
Edmund Gibson
#55. Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?
Alan Bradley
#56. That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Antonio Porchia
#57. Believer of extremely good world that you and I are part of.
Kishan Barai
#58. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.
Colum McCann
#59. People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
Michel De Montaigne
#60. Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
Taylor Mali
#62. You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.
Diyar Harraz
#63. As it's your 40th birthday
This, we'd like to say
May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
On this, your special day.
John Walter Bratton
#64. There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.
C.S. Lewis
#65. We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
Francis Spufford
#66. Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Cardinal Richelieu
#67. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
#68. What's with the strange clothes?"
I smile through my labored breath, pleased to be making progress. "Where I'm from, you'd be the one dressed strangely."
Thank goodness, she slows a bit. "And what planet is that again?"
"Er. Canada.
Cyn Balog
#69. Stop looking at people's religions. Try to look at the goodness within them.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Mark Hyman
#72. God has a way of removing what looks permanent by showing us an explosion of His goodness.
Joel Osteen
#73. In fact, if there was one thing Tabitha had learned from the weekend thus far, it was that people had all sorts of facades about them, covering tucked-away bits of badness and goodness. Fear and courage. Helplessness and hope.
Jessica Lawson
#74. It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#75. Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#76. Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some sense of who Anakin Skywalker might have been before his fall, and of the goodness that must have survived in him through all the darkness, all the years.
Claudia Gray
#77. It sickens me that humans, who are capable of such goodness and love, can also be the tools of horrifying atrocities, as if possessed by the very demons they claim to hate and fear.
David Estes
#78. 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.
Pablo Casals
#79. Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?
Liane Moriarty
#80. Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
and the ultimate grand design of creation.
Morihei Ueshiba
#81. I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.
Kelli O'Hara
#83. I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!
Eleanor Farjeon
#84. Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
Heloise
#85. You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something you're doing live, a song dips and rises and that can actually be worked to the song's benefit.
John Darnielle
#86. Neither Rousseau nor Robespierre was capable of dreaming of a goodness beyond virtue, just as they were unable to imagine that radical evil would 'partake nothing of the sordid or sensual' (Melville), that there could be wickedness beyond vice.
Hannah Arendt
#88. When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.
Kelli O'Hara
#89. There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
Bobby Schilling
#90. To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.
Billy Graham
#91. Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
#92. We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
Nigel Barker
#93. It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. Somewhat of goodness, something true
From sun and spirit shining through
All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark
Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark,
Attests the presence everywhere
Of love and providential care.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#95. I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
Jane Austen
#96. Nick gave a sharp nod. "Fair point". Rising, he stepped toward the desk and stole a chip off Marz's plate.
"Dude," Marz said, holding out his hands, "get your own crunchy goodness.
Laura Kaye
#97. Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
Joel Salatin
#98. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.
D.L. Moody
#99. In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.
David Brooks
#100. Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come.
Abhijit Naskar
