Goodness Quotes
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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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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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 seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman Rushdie
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Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
Arthur Desmond
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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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Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
Walker Percy
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True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
Confucius
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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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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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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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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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I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
Jack Roy
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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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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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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
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My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.
Bonnie McFarlane
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett
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It takes a certain kind of bravery and a certain kind of goodness to be able to not just put your destructive past behind you, but to continue to take harassment from society and from police for your past.
B. R. Hayden
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
Rachel Caine
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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
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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