Good Will Quotes

• Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

  Marshall Field

  Business, Educational, Competition

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• If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.

  Robin Williams

  Love You, Eye, Angel

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• If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

  Robin Williams

  Love You, Hunting, Vulnerable

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Don't know much, but I know I love you.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Love You, Hunting, Misinterpretation

  Song: Don't Know Much

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• Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Philosophy, Real

  "Robin Williams Good Will Hunting: Quotes, Wife Speech, Monologue From Sean Maguire" by Zachary Stieber, www.theepochtimes.com. August 12, 2014.

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• Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

  James A. Garfield

  Passion, Justice, Outlasting

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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 road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Writing, Procrastination

  Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.

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• We're taking action against evil people. Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil. This is clearly a case of good versus evil, and make no mistake about it - good will prevail.

  George W. Bush

  War, Mistake, Inspiration

  "Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers reacts to ISIS plan". www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2015.

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• Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Christmas, Dream, Lying

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• The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Years, Wish

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• True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Spring, Patriotic

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hate, Teaching

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Leadership, Letting Go, People

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• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  J. I. Packer

  God, Character, Men

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• A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

  John of Kronstadt

  Forgiveness, Christian, Wise

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• Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Food, Order, Desire

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• Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.

  Julia Peterkin

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

  "A Plantation Christmas". Book by Julia Peterkin, 1934.

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Running, Secret

  Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

  Margaret Atwood

  Forgotten, Should, Remembered

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.26, Anchor

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• I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  "George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection".

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• No society of nations, no people within a nation, no family can benefit through mutual aid unless good will exceeds ill will; unless the spirit of cooperation surpasses antagonism; unless we all see and act as though the other man's welfare determines our own welfare.

  Henry Ford II

  Men, Ill Will, People

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• The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Exercise, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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