Goodness Quotes
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When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
Gautama Buddha -
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
Josephine Hart
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It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
Sanjeev Bhaskar -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein -
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
John Calvin -
Goodness transcends badness.
Clive Rowe -
I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman -
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Aristotle
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
Eric Gill -
I declare that you shall experience the goodness of the Lord in every area of your life!
Creflo A. Dollar -
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
Charles Dickens -
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
Euripides -
Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.
Callimachus -
Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.
Adrian Tan
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There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
Ivor Novello -
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
William Peter Blatty -
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
William Ellery Channing -
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall -
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow -
I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.
Anne Ursu
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It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come on - you're out there running, for goodness sake. You're to be taken seriously.
Deborah Reber -
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
Mahatma Gandhi -
That good diffused may more abundant grow.
William Cowper -
Money is the root of all goodness. To talk disparagingly about money is the privilege of those who have money. There are also those people who state matter-of-factly that "money isn't everything". This statement is also true, but only so long as one has money.
Charles Willeford