For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
~ René Char
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
~ Bertolt Brecht
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
~ La Rochefoucauld
The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.
~ D. L. Coles
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
~ Daniel Boone
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
~ Ray Bradbury
Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
~ Mo Rocca
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
~ John Ruskin
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
~ Mark Hyman
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
~ Albert Einstein
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
~ Lao Tzu
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
~ Michel De Montaigne
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.
~ Shari Arison
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
~ William Dean Howells
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
~ William Ames
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
~ Elsa Maxwell
I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.
~ Jeff Hardy
