Best 1197 quotes in «goodness quotes» category

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

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

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

A beautiful face is temporary; a beautiful soul is forever.

All my seven dogs, who passed away, were great beings - a helluva lot better than most of the silly inhumane bums, mistakenly called human beings.

All our good deeds cannot save us. We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.

All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.

Always be one and not more than that!

Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life.

Always see the good in everyone...learn to see through God's eyes no matter what...remember, the tables may turn tomorrow. You just never know!

always see the goodness in others for it will sent you to righteousness,.. Amen

A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

And in the echo of that gladness, horror blooms within me. In its own strange way, it's a horror as deep as any I've experienced so far. I've succeeded in taking another human hostage, in making him urinate on himself. I made a plan to torture someone, and then I carried it out, and it satisfied me to do so. As much hurt and hell as the Wolfman has caused, I don't want to be his judge and jury, his jailer and tormentor. I don't want to be that person. I want to be good. I don't want to fall into a big, black pit of darkness, because what if I can't get out?

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard? John Galt

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what? - Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world. (- А теперь скажи мне, что это ты все время употребляешь слова добрые люди"? Ты всех, что ли, так называешь? - Всех, - ответил арестант, - злых людей нет на свете.)

And now you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

...And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive, who stand behind the ones I have imagined, who took into their minds the troubles of this place, blights of love and race, but saw a good fate here and willingly paid its cost, kept it the best they could, thought of its good, and mourned the good they lost. (From the ending of Where in Clearing, p179)

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.