Goodness Quotes - Page 13

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

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.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

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

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

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

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

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

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.