Goodness Quotes
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
Oscar Wilde
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There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The good man makes others good.
Menander
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
Vernon Howard
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
Zachary Taylor
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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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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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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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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
Saint Ignatius
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
Victor Garber
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Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
Albert Einstein
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
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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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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Fiona Apple
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
Andy Rooney
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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
Aristotle
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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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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Samuel Butler
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson