Good Will Quotes - Page 14

• I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.

  King Hussein I

  Men, Principles, Behavior

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• Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Ill Will, Rooms, Havens

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• The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

  John Henry Jowett

  God, Children, Fall

  John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Anniversary, People, Decision

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• The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

  John Berger

  Artist, Giving, Desire

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• No idea, no matter how good, will work if it doesn't get used.

  Peter A. Cohen

  Motivation, Ideas, Matter

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• Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Oasis, League, Definitions

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• Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, Kindness, Office

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.199, e-artnow

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• Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Opportunity, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage

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• There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

  Isak Dinesen

  Concerned

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to
  create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and
  work.

  Thomas Dreier

  Work, Atmosphere, And Love

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• Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Prejudice, Ignored

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.16, Beacon Press

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• We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Peace, Wall

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

  Russell Brand

  Nice, Dead Poets Society, Hunting

  "Russell Brand: Robin Williams’ Divine Madness Will No Longer Disrupt the Sadness of the World". The Guardian Opinion Page, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.

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• It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  Self, Doubt, Growing

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• When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished.

  Paul Walker

  Accomplished

  "Paul Walker: The Charity Projects That Prove He 'Walked The Walk'" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 2, 2013.

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• We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Religion, Wicked

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Hitchens vs Blair”, p.10, Random House

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• Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

  Queen Victoria

  Country, Real, Desire

  Queen Victoria's journal entry, June 20, 1837.

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• But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Men, World

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• The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

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• That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

  Pope Francis

  People, Justice, World

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• If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Gay, Judging

  Press conference of Pope Francis during the return flight from Rio de Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 28, 2013.

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• The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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