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Goodness

«It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.»
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher | About: Dreams, Effort, Evil, Food, Fulfilment, Goodness, Health, Hunger, Illness, Rest, Wishes | Keywords: exertion, health food, sickness, to be filled
«It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Action, Goodness | Keywords: profess, professes, professing
«It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man»
Author: Henry MacKenzie | About: Belief, Goodness, Wisdom | Keywords: borne, calamities, Supreme Being
«It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | About: Beauty, Goodness | Keywords: amazing, delusion, goodness
«In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Goodness, Greatness, Men
«It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Goodness, Self-esteem | Keywords: pronounce
«It shows how dangerous it is to be too good»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Goodness
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | About: Cruelty, Goodness, Love, Power, Pride | Keywords: connected, cruelty, cunning, retain
«It is very wearing to be good»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Goodness | Keywords: wearing
«It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Beauty, Funny, Goodness | Keywords: beautiful, better, ugliest, ugly
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