Goodness Quotes - Page 14

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

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

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.

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

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Everyone, everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off because there is worth and goodness in every life. Straight from the declaration of independence, that is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who 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.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you!