Good Sayings – Quotes About Goodness

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“Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.”
– Matthew Henry

“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.”
– Maurice Maeterlinck

“Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.”
– Meir Kahane

“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
– Meister Eckhart

“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.”
– Michael Jackson

“Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.”
– Michel De Montaigne

“I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That’s changed a lot, thank goodness.”
– Michelle Pfeiffer

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”
– Milan Kundera

“How goodness heightens beauty!”
– Milan Kundera

“Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.”
– Mitt Romney

“The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.”
– Mitt Romney

“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.”
– Mo Rocca

“From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people’s good.”
– Morarji Desai

“The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.”
– Morris Dees

“You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.”
– Nadia Comaneci

“If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”
– Nelson Mandela

“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.”
– Northrop Frye

“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”
– Pablo Casals

“In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.”
– Paula Deen

“No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”
– Phillips Brooks

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”
– Richard Le Gallienne

“I’m not getting to heaven on my integrity. I’m not getting to heaven on my goodness.”
– Rick Warren

“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.”
– Robert Anton Wilson

“How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.”
– Robert Mondavi

“It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don’t really think it’s power… it’s the goodness.”
– Robert Plant

“I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.”
– Rosie O’Donnell

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