Francis Bacon Quotes
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'
Malin Akerman
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
Saint Ignatius
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
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Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
Andy Griffith
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
Oprah Winfrey
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I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"
Philip Morrison
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
Socrates
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For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
Socrates
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.
Walter Wangerin
