Quotes with goodness

  • People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
  • There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
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  • Les Brown Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • John Updike A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Pablo Casals 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
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Anne Rice Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 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.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Denzel Washington I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • John Jay Chapman Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • 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.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Khaled Hosseini A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Sappho Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
    Sappho
    Greek poet (630 - 570)
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  • William Shakespeare Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Louisa May Alcott 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.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • W.S. Landor Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
    W.S. Landor
     
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  • Saul Bellow Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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