Quotes about Goodness

"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

"A little moralizing's good - a little: I like a taste, but not a bath of it."
-Quintus Ennius

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty."
-Samuel Butler

"The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter."
-Thomas Brooks

"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
-Charles Dudley Warner

"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too."
-Bishop Desmond Tutu

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart."
-William Dean Howells

"Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success."
-Philip Guedalla

"Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts."
-Tibetan Proverb

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
-Leo Tolstoy

"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."
-Menander

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
-Meister Eckhart

"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
-C. S. Lewis

"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
-Morris Dees

"The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season."
-Real Live Preacher

"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
-Reinhold Niebuhr

"Thank goodness they were missing them. If they were making them, we'd be in a lot of trouble."
-Terry Posey

"What I wanted to do was talk to people. Goodness knows I've done a lot of that."
-Chris Judson

"I have a wonderful environment where I am. My goodness, I'm a queen."
-Marianne Sahlstrom

"I knew I had a chance to do something special, but I didn't know I was going to do that. I've never been that fast before and my goodness it hurt."
-David Carry

"The union people, out of the goodness of their hearts, said this was something they could do. Most of this is from people that don't even know Danelle."
-Cindy Taylor

"Oh, he is a big boy. Holy cow! My goodness!"
-Tim Maple

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."
-Billy Graham

"Having to choose between goodness and beauty is a false dichotomy."
-Susan Ross

"Of course, I missed my family and Eugene. I forgot how beautiful this place was, oh my goodness."
-Amanda Justesen

"When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
-Euripides

"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
-David Grayson