Top 230 Goodness Quotes

My father is a very sweet man. He has led a very honest life. Perhaps it’s the result of his goodness that I am doing well in my career.

Thank goodness for IMDB.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There’s an inherent goodness in most people. Don’t pre-judge people – that was me Mam’s advice anyway.

There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, ‘Oh my goodness.’ Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won’t be able to keep me off there.

‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X.’ I’ve used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.

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.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world – the money is OK but it is no life at all.

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called ‘Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.’

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

I hadn’t looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there’s no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.

Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

It really helps me if I think back to what our first families up here went through because, my goodness, they really had very tough times.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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

I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.

I would say that when you do something out of the goodness of your heart, and you don’t know what the repercussions will be, you have to live with that. And it can be devastating. Because the intention was there.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

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

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.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don’t tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

When it seems like the whole world thinks you’re bad, it’s hard to hang on to your goodness.

Yes, I have used my success to bring goodness to the world. Because I’m an actress, and I’m on someone’s favorite show or whatever, I think maybe they will listen to me. I feel there’s a responsibility to use that platform wisely.

So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

I’m Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I’m volatile.

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

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m old.’ I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.

I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m going to work with Tom Cruise!’

Oh my goodness, I’m in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I’m too old to play his love interest. They’d probably cast me as his grandmomma’s friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we’re not so bad after all.

We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

I have come to learn that goodness is transnational, transcultural, and trans-ethnic.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

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.

I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we’re all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

Very few editors worry about heresy – their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

However imperfect Donald Trump may be, -and, my goodness, he is – his mother was Scottish; he owns Turnberry. He spends a lot of time in our country – he loves our country, what we stand for, and our culture.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.