Goodwill Quotes

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Christmas, Xmas, Real

"Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Nelson Mandela

Differences, People, Peaceful

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

Bryan Adams

Charity, Way, Return

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

Marshall Field

Business, Educational, Competition

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Gautama Buddha

Heart, Religion, Cherish

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I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Socrates

Citizens, World, Nationality

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Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

Albert Einstein

Leadership, Healing, Men

"Einstein on Peace".

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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Eddie Izzard

Believe, People, Just Believe

"Straight talking" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2008.

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It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!

George Matthew Adams

Life, Friendship, Kindness

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Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

Rumi

Kindness, Heart, Soul

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.137, Shambhala Publications

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Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

Nelson Mandela

Taught Us, Profound, Challenges

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Richard Aldington

Common Sense, Earth, Paradise

Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

Laozi

Circumstances

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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

B. C. Forbes

Yield

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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Life, Food, Eating Well

Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Poison, Want, Harmony

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We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Wangari Maathai

Teamwork, Helping Others, Men

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Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

J. I. Packer

Creativity, Maturity, Resilience

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There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.

James Fisher

Victory, Auras, Persons

James L. Fisher (1984). “Power of the presidency”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.

Prentice Mulford

Life, Real, Blood

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None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.

William Feather

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To hate another is to hate yourself.
We all live within the one Universal Mind.
What we think about another, we think about ourselves.
If you have an enemy, forgive him now.
Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve.
You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate.
Show charity and goodwill toward others
and it will return to enhance your own life
in many wonderful ways.

Bryan Adams

Forgiveness, Hate, Men

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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

James A. Garfield

Passion, Justice, Outlasting

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Affection, Divine, Accord

Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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