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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. (Quote by - David Grayson)

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

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. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. (Quote by - Morarji Desai)

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (Quote by - George Linnaeus Banks)

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He. (Quote by - Alphonsus Liguori)

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep. wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.' (Quote by - samwilson)

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Quote by - Epicurus)

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. (Quote by - Timothy Radcliffe)

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. (Quote by - Billy Graham)

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. (Quote by - H L Mencken)

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. (Quote by - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character.Would you slow down? Or speed up? (Quote by - shutterfly)

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good. (Quote by - John Fountain)

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