Good Will Quotes
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein -
I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.
Vaclav Havel
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Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have.
Anne Morice -
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
Fannie Hurst -
I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.
Carla Gallo -
We are glad to see solid operational performance even though a much larger-than-expected goodwill write down was taken for the AOL and cable divisions, about $45 billion in total.
David Joyce -
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
Bryan Adams
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There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.
William Feather -
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
Gautama Buddha -
I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
Roger Taylor Queen -
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
Erich Maria Remarque -
I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.
Oprah Winfrey
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I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
Socrates -
I found goodwill in everybody -- and understanding -- but also some differences remain, ... I will keep in touch with all leaders. The government of unity is the best instrument to face the political challenge.
Javier Solana -
By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
Socrates
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She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
Charles Dickens -
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
Immanuel Kant -
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.