Quotes on Goodness

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;_x000D_ _x000D_ But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.

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