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Goodness Quotes

Good and great are seldom in the same man.


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.


When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.


He asked me about my family. I told him about my grandma on my mom's side who lived with us. She was filled with nobility and goodness, told me once that happiness isn't on the road to anything. That happiness is the road. Had also instructed me to be kind because everyone you'll ever meet is fighting a hard battle.


No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.


The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.


My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.


There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.


What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.


If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.


The greatest good is what we do for others.


The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.


Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and virtuous.


Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.


Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.


Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.


The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.


Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.


A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.


We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.