Goodness Quotes - Page 17

• Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Evil, Decision

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• There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Jealousy, Mean, Thinking

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Winning, Justice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Hypocrite, Names

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Offering

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• Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Children, Responsibility, Nobility

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

  Anne Hathaway

  Believe, People, Capacity

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  To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Strength, Heart

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Islands, Long

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• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  Meir Kahane

  Easter, Middle East, Impress

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• When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

  Islom Karimov

  Kind Deeds, Justice, Liberty

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• No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Way, Appropriate

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• Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Children, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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• For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Death, Men

  Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (1971). “Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann”

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• I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

  Ashley Montagu

  School, College, Littles

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• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, Evil, Democracy

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• On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.

  Conor Oberst

  Good Day, Thinking, Ideas

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• Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

  Susan Orlean

  Real, School, Names

  "@leapofFaith" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Actresses, Changed

  "Michelle Pfeiffer: 'I never had a big game plan'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

  Steven Pinker

  Giving, Psychology, Meaning Of Life

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• People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, People, Weakness

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• Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Drama, Views, Play

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Would Be, Danger

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• No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strength, Men, Sloth

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