Good Sayings – Quotes About Goodness

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“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
– Denis Waitley

“A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It’s not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.”
– Dennis Potter

“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”
– Dennis Prager

“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”
– Dennis Prager

“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

“God‘s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”
– Desmond Tutu

“We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”
– Desmond Tutu

“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”
– Desmond Tutu

“The way of a man’s heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him – coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.”
– Donald G. Mitchell

“Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.”
– Donald Rumsfeld

“Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I’ll say that until the day I die.”
– Donny Osmond

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
– Dr. Seuss

“Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.”
– E. M. Forster

“In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.”
– Edward Bond

“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
– Edward Bond

“Serve the dinner backward, do anything – but for goodness sake, do something weird.”
– Elsa Maxwell

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”
– Francis Bacon

“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.”
– Frank Ocean

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.”
– Georg Brandes

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
– George Orwell

“More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?”
– George Saunders

“I’m Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I’m volatile.”
– Gordon Ramsay

“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.”
– Grover Cleveland

“Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.”
– Hans Urs Von Balthasar

“Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.”
– Harry Browne

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