Good Will Quotes - Page 9

• One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Mean, Rights, Soldier

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

  Ameen Rihani

  Cousin, World, Messengers

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press

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• God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

  Bob Dylan

  Tranquility, God Bless You, God Bless

  "Adele and her Oscars competition" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2013.

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• We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Rights, Goal

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983”

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• The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

  Richard Steele

  Kindness, Men, Judging

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244

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• A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Kindness, Real, Compassion

  Eknath Easwaran (2012). “Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down”, p.128, Nilgiri Press

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• I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

  Robert E. Lee

  Heart, Enemy, May

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.78, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Children, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.43, Penguin

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• I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Desire, My Friends

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• The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Purpose, Gaps, Theory

  "A Source Book in Mathematics". Book edited by David Eugene Smith, "A Memoir on Algebraic Equations, Proving the Impossibility of a Solution of the General Equation of the Fifth Degree" (1824), 1929.

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• If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Opportunity, Giving

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• I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Children, Truth

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sick, Needs, Rooms

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.406, Applewood Books

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• Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Inspiration, Mean

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• ...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Mean, Winning

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• Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Rights, Government, People

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.

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• The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Struggle, Past, Rights

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• It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Writing, Men, Artist

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• Nor love they least
  Who strike with right good will
  To vanquish ill
  And fight God's battle upward from the beast.

  Richard Hovey

  Fighting, Battle, Beast

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

  John Tyler

  Friendship, Government, Relation

  First annual message to Congress, June 01, 1841.

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• The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy, Friends

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

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• The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Doe, Facts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.

  Bill Shuster

  Government, America, Generosity

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• Keep hustling, something good will happen.

  Joe Paterno

  Hustle, Happens

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