Goodness Quotes

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. View quote
Xun Zi
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. View quote
Lin Yutang
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. View quote
Mark Twain
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. View quote
Anne Rice
Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. (John Updike)
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. View quote
Anne Rice
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Consideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. View quote
Morarji Desai
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. View quote
Athenaeus
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? View quote
Dr. Seuss
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. View quote
Northrop Frye
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
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)
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. View quote
Herman Melville
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. View quote
Basil Hume
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. View quote
Saul Bellow