Quotes about Goodness

Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you'll see this in every long-term relationship they have, whether it is with a business associate, a spouse, a friend, or a teenage child going through an identity crisis. It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

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

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself