Goodness Quotes - Page 16

• If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.223, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

  Lionel Blue

  Years, Republic, Kingdoms

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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  Daniel Boone

  War, Ambition, Land

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

  Georg Brandes

  Kindness, Brutality, Baseness

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

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• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Trying, Faculty

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

  Samuel Butler

  Gracefulness

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

  Luther Campbell

  Hard Work, Motivational Work, Hard

  Luther Campbell, John Ramsey Miller (1992). “As Nasty As They Wanna Be: The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew”, Barricade Books Incorporated

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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Elements, Mysterious, Mystery

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• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Men, Worthy

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

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• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Spiritual, Religious

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Forbes, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

  Grover Cleveland

  Powerful, Men, People

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

  William Cobbett

  War, Men, May

  William Cobbett (1820). “Cobbett's Political Register”, p.497

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• Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Strength, Atheist, Heart

  "Opus Maximum".

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• You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Gymnastics, People, Appreciate

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• I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Work Out, World, Okay

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• In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

  Paula Deen

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Character, Balance, Trying

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

  Morarji Desai

  Selfish, People, Want

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

  Terry Eagleton

  Kind, Affair, Being Human

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

  Roger Ebert

  Fantasy, Happens, Involving

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.403, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

  Meister Eckhart

  Love, Spiritual, Compassion

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• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Memorable

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

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• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

  Carly Fiorina

  Hair, People, Territory

  "Interview with California Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 9, 2010.

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• Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Soul, Sensitive

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