Goodness Quotes
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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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Morely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i] Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt.
Rachel Caine
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You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
Tagg Romney
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman Rushdie
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
Walker Percy
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The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
Adrian Rogers
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I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
Jack Roy
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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 thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
Confucius
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The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
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Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luther
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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 it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.
Anderson Cooper
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But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
Daniel Berrigan
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Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.
Oprah Winfrey
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There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.
Phil Anselmo Pantera
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
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Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.
Evelyn Underhill
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The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
George Washington
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I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
Anne Hathaway
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
Oprah Winfrey