Good Will Quotes - Page 13

• Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.

  Misha Collins

  Moving, Thinking, Worry

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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• A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.

  Vivian Gornick

  Strong, People, Understanding

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• O most illustrious of the days of time!
  Day full of joy and benison to earth
  When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!
  With dazzling pomp descending angels sung
  Good will and peace to men, to God due praise,
  Who on the errand of salvation sent
  Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity
  Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.

  Abraham Coles

  Christmas, Sweet, Angel

  Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

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• Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Christmas, Angel, Thoughtful

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• Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.

  Bob Burg

  Dog, People, Empathy

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.18, Penguin

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• People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

  Subhash Kak

  People, Paradise, Embrace

  "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.

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• The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

  Ronda Rousey

  Struggle, Frustration, Talking

  Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

  John Scalzi

  Thinking, People, Different

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• She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Trials, Loyal

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.434, Barnes & Noble

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• There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Player, Friendly

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• I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Children, Truth

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Rights, Goal

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983”

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• God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

  Bob Dylan

  Tranquility, God Bless You, God Bless

  "Adele and her Oscars competition" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

  Ameen Rihani

  Cousin, World, Messengers

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press

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• One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Mean, Rights, Soldier

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.

  Matt Blaze

  Believe, Light, Security And Freedom

  "Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws" by Declan Mccullagh, www.wired.com. September 13, 2001.

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• A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Delight, Alive

  Baltasar Gracián, François Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “Collected Wisdom: The Art of Worldly Wisdom; Reflections: Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims; and Maxims and Reflections”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.

  Peter Beinart

  Thinking, Economic Models, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Analysis, World

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

  Isabel Allende

  Dark, Lamps, Corners

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Tyrants, Loyal

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• ... and it's always been a thing with me to feel that all men know the truth, see? ... The truth itself doesn't have a name on it. To me. Each man has to find this for himself, I think. I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be... I'm not interested in trying to say what it will be, I don't know. But I believe that good will only bring good.

  John Coltrane

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.

  Eric Gill

  Practice, Effort, Would Be

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• If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Opportunity, Giving

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