Good Will Quotes

• Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

  Marshall Field

  Business, Educational, Competition

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• Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Philosophy, Real

  "Robin Williams Good Will Hunting: Quotes, Wife Speech, Monologue From Sean Maguire" by Zachary Stieber, www.theepochtimes.com. August 12, 2014.

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• If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

  Robin Williams

  Love You, Hunting, Vulnerable

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.

  Robin Williams

  Love You, Eye, Angel

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• Don't know much, but I know I love you.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Love You, Hunting, Misinterpretation

  Song: Don't Know Much

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• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Writing, Procrastination

  Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.

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• Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

  James A. Garfield

  Passion, Justice, Outlasting

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• The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Detours, Politics

  Newsweek, p. 23, January 23, 1978.

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• What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Hunting, Actors

  Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.

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• With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Hunting, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

  Jack Kerouac

  All Things

  "On the Road".

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  I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Evil, Interesting

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• If there is a good will, there is great way.

  William Shakespeare

  Way, Ifs

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

  Jon Meacham

  Dog, Epic, Fire

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• I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, People, Sides

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Israel, Europe

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• We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Selfishness, World

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• Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

  Amy Grant

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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• Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Afterlife, Firsts

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

  James Larkin

  Acquiescence, Carrying On, Profit

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• If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Men, Compassion

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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