Goodness Quotations

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

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.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us.

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

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.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well?

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

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

I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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

The positive energy and the overall tone of this event are almost euphoric, ... To have 2,400 people collectively engaged in an act of goodness like this restores one's faith in humanity. Indeed, this demonstrated capacity for altruism challenges the notion that it is always about self-interest.

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

Unless its out of the goodness of someones heart, I dont like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and thats the onlyway I can truly appreciate it.

With the new rules and the speed of the players and the way that the game was officiated tonight, if that's the way it's going to be, then goodness gracious -- it's an exciting game out there.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.