Goodness Quotes - Page 4

• While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Life, Achievement, Feelings

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.358

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• Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Holy, Righteous

  Charles Kingsley (1874). “David: Five Sermons”, p.12

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• I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Good Man, Bottom

  "Malone Dies". Book by Samuel Beckett, 1951.

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• There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, People, Littles

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• 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, Be Good, Persons

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

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• You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

  A. Powell Davies

  Heart, Character, Mind

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• If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Good Life, Two, Meditation

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Admiration, Kind, Looking Good

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.113

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• No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

  Chris Murphy

  Evil, Forgiving, Needs

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• The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

  Bert Hellinger

  Joy, Criteria, Distress

  Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

  Naum Gabo

  Order, Evil, Chaos

  Naum Gabo (1957). “Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays”

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• By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

  James MacDonald

  Believe, Land, Grace

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.105, Moody Publishers

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• All men are born good.

  Confucius

  Men, Born

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

  George Eliot

  Age, Reason, Rejoice

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.607, ShandonPress

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• Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Voice, Evil, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.145

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• This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grieving, Opposites, Mind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIII, p. 326-29, 1922.

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• 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, Doing Good

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• God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weather, Gold, Lace

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Entanglement, Grows

  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

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• A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Journey, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3199, Delphi Classics

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• Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Heaven, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.741

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• Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Eye, Men, Snow

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.154

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.

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• As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Liars, Men, Evil

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.147

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