Goodness Quotes
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
Walker Percy -
Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
Arthur Desmond
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett -
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 -
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.
Ernest Holmes -
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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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
Alfred A. Montapert -
Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
Rachel Caine -
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 -
Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
William P. Young -
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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Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.
Willard Gaylin -
What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
Anne Revere -
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 -
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey -
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 -
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
Saint Augustine
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Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.
Xunzi -
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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 -
I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
Joseph Heller