Top 25 Goodness Quotes of 442 - Page 9

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.76, Univ of California Press

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

Past, Men, Goodness

Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Seneca the Younger

Simplicity, Goodness, Squalor

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mean, Greatness, Goodness

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.348

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Samuel Johnson

Goodness, Found, Please

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.232

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Samuel Butler

Men, Trying, Goodness

Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Samuel Butler

Goodness, Gracefulness

Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

Salman Rushdie

Parent, Missing, Goodness

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

Sakyong Mipham

Talking, Goodness, Term

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Saint Augustine

Needs, Lord, Goodness

Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.125, OUP Oxford

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Roger Ebert

Fantasy, Goodness, Happens

Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.403, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Humor, Goodness, Good Humor

Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

Rachel Caine

Thinking, Enough, Goodness

Rachel Caine (2010). “Fade Out”, p.154, Allison & Busby

God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!

Pope Francis

Evil, Stronger, Goodness

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Plutarch

Real, Excellence, Goodness

Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.70, Courier Corporation

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

Philip James Bailey

Race, Good Man, Goodness

Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.13

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Mo Rocca

Christmas, Goodness, Stockings

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

Meher Baba

Feelings, Goodness, Be Good

"How to Love God" by Meher Baba, September 12, 1954.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Way, Goodness