Goodness Quotes

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  Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Success, Peace

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 04, 2014

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• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Teaching, Personality

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Real kindness seeks no return.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Kindness, Real, Words Of Wisdom

  "Tirukkural" by Thiruvalluvar, (Verse XXII.1), 1840.

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Faith In God, Goodness Of God

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Men

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

  Chanakya

  Education, Flower, Wind

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• Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspirational, Positive, Inward

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspiring, Encouragement, I Hate You

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

  John Jay Chapman

  Thinking, Wickedness, Victim

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.17

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• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

  Saul Bellow

  Kindness, Men, Vacuums

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Kindness, Perfection, Succeed

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• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.77, 谷月社

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

  Jewel

  Being Sad, Lost Friendship, Needs

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• How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

  George MacDonald

  Nice, Thinking, People

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.10197, e-artnow

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• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Perspective

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• 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?

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Birthday, Summer

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• Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.

  George Q. Cannon

  Inspirational, God, Hope

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• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Joy Happiness, Sharing Happiness

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• Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

  Jules Michelet

  Heart, Glory, Be Good

  Jules Michelet (1847). “History of France: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time”, p.169

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• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dance, War, Evil

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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