Goodwill Quotes - Page 2

• To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mean, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Sweet, Xmas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.475, Library of America

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• No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Government, Safe

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• I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

  Vaclav Havel

  Helping Others, People, Needs

  "The Language of Hatred, Increasingly Normalized by Trump" by Michael Gerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 2, 2017.

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• To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Kindness, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Country, Children

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself.

  Kreayshawn

  Cute, Stuff, Stores

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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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• The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Years, Data, America

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• I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

  Albert Reynolds

  Reality, Years, Together

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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• For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

  Kevin Hearne

  Kindness, Regret, Stress

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.716, Del Rey

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• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  Wendy Cope

  Christmas, Men, Earth

  Wendy Cope (2017). “Christmas Poems”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  President, Would Be, Assets

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  Walter Murch

  Real, People, Cards

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

  Randall Robinson

  Communication, Community, Needs

  Randall Robinson (2001). “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks”, p.171, Penguin

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• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Food, Eating Well, Giving

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

  Fannie Hurst

  Guests, Gestures, Host

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• I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, People, Esprit De Corps

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• I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

  Danny Glover

  Years, Twelve, Ambassadors

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• We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Trust, Cutting, Ties

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  Anthony Holden

  Wedding, Literature, Fairy Tale

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• Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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• For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Country, Warfare, Violent

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.341, U of Nebraska Press

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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