Goodness Quotes - page 2

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)
Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? View quote
Jean Anouilh
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. View quote
William Penn
The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. View quote
Michael Jackson
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear. View quote
Christopher Columbus
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. View quote
Aldous Huxley
How goodness heightens beauty! View quote
Milan Kundera
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. View quote
Milan Kundera
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world. (Shari Arison)
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. View quote
Islom Karimov
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow. View quote
Pythagoras