Goodness Quotes - Page 9

• If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

  Diogenes

  Good Friend, Enemy, Hot

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.

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• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Nature, Retirement, Kindness

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Men, Imagine

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Kindness, Distance, Needs

  George Linnaeus Banks (1853). “Pearls from the Belfry: Lyrics”, p.30

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• I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Philosophy, Desire, Noise

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• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Dream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

  Ralph Marston

  Regret, Sides, Lasting

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• Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

  Jerry Bridges

  God, Bridges, Grace

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• God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

  Desmond Tutu

  Family, Dream, Compassion

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• It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

  Joseph Addison

  Mind, Action, Good Intentions

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.76

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• Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

  John Hope Bryant

  Country, Kings, Law

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• Do your little bit of good where you are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Kindness, Good People, Littles

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Kindness, Mean

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

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• Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

  LeCrae

  Humble, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Mistake, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.206

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• A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

  Brennan Manning

  Saint, Goodness Of God, Ragamuffin Gospel

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Forgiveness, Strong, Long

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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• It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.

  Maimonides

  Animal, Mercy Of God, Perfect

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humanity, Summit

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• We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

  Gavin de Becker

  Inspirational, Children, Nice

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

  Epictetus

  Good Life, Practice, Rewards

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• The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

  George Eliot

  Firsts, Reverence, Humans

  Scenes of Clerical Life "Jane's Repentance" ch. 10 (1858)

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