GOODNESS

Famous Quotes

Quote: There are few good women who do not tire of their role. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. Author: Mary Mccarthy 1912-1989, American Author, Critic

Quote: Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Author: Iris Murdoch 1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher

Quote: What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

Quote: In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

Quote: There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts Author: Tibetan Proverb Sayings of Tibetan Origin

Quote: To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. Author: Ernest Renan 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar

Quote: Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

Quote: The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. Author: Jan Van Ruysbroeck

Quote: Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow. Author: Sappho fl. BC 600-, Greek Lyric Poet

Quote: Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet

Quote: Goodness is the only investment which never fails. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic

Quote: One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author

Quote: If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Quote: Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. Author: Mikhail Bakunin 1814-1876, Russian Political Theorist

Quote: Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Author: Saul Bellow 1915-, American Novelist

Quote: No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. Author: Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

Quote: A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. Author: Emily Bronte 1818-1848, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Author: Phillips Brooks 1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

Quote: We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men! Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet

Quote: As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher

Quote: Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Quote: Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Author: Pablo Casals 1876-1973, Spanish Cellist, Conductor, Composer

Quote: Good and bad men are less than they seem. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

Quote: It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

Quote: The devil himself is good when he is pleased. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

Quote: The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

Quote: Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. Author: David Grayson 1870-1946, American Journalist and Writer

Quote: If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist

Quote: Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Author: Georg Hegel 1770-1831, German Philosopher

Quote: Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author

Quote: To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. Author: Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

Quote: How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Author: Alice James 1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James

Quote: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Author: Milan Kundera 1929-, Czech Author, Critic

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