Goodness Quotes - Page 17

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

No evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

Leave something good in every day.

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

Apathy is dead. Show them the face of evil - Satanists lurking among us - running our governments, our banks, our schools, threatening to obliterate the very House of God with their misguided science. Depravity runs deep. Man must be vigilant. Seek the goodness. Become the goodness!

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

Goodness transcends badness.