Good Sayings – Quotes About Goodness

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“Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.”
– Samuel Butler

“There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.”
– Samuel Butler

“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.”
– Saul Bellow

“I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.”
– Shania Twain

“Oh my goodness, I’m in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I’m too old to play his love interest. They’d probably cast me as his grandmomma’s friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.”
– Sherri Shepherd

“I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.”
– Sloane Crosley

“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.”
– Stephen King

“Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes – thank goodness – it’s nicer than real life.”
– Susan Orlean

“For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.”
– Terry Eagleton

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”
– Thomas Mann

“I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man’s ability to fight and often triumph.”
– Tom Shadyac

“Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.”
– Victor Garber

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
– Victor Hugo

“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”
– Walter Savage Landor

“The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.”
– William Ames

“Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.”
– William Cobbett

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
– William Hazlitt

“God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.”
– William Law

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
– William Shakespeare

“Thank goodness we don’t live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.”
– Wojciech Jaruzelski

“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.”
– Xun Zi

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