Mother Teresa - Quotes

 People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. 

Tags: catholicism   christianity   forgiveness   goodness   happiness   honesty   kindness   relgion   world     


World Trade Center - Quotes

 John McLoughlin:
[Narrating] "9/11 showed us what human beings are capable of. The evil, yeah, sure. But it also brought out the goodness we forgot could exist. People taking care of each other for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. It's important for us to talk about that good, to remember. 'Cause I saw all of it that day."
 

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Stephen Fry - Quotes

 I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.

But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind. 

Tags: goodness   humour   language   life   wodehouse   writing     


Anthony Burgess - Quotes

 But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into the causes of goodness, so why the other shop? 

Tags: crime   criminal   goodness   society   sociology     
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Quotes

 Norrington:
You forget your place, Turner.
Will Turner:
It's right here. Between you and Jack.
Elizabeth:
As is mine.
Governor Swann:
Elizabeth. Lower your weapons. For goodness sake, put them down.
Norrington:
So, this is where your heart truly lies, then?
Elizabeth:
It is.
 

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Eight Crazy Nights - Quotes

 Eleanor Duvall:
[as Davey enters] Oh my goodness - it's a home invasion robbery! Please, mister, take whatever you want but please don't chop my legs off!
 

Tags: Goodness Quotes   Home Quotes     
A Very Brady Sequel - Quotes

 Carol Brady:
Thank goodness I use AquaNet!
 

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A League of Their Own - Quotes

 Ma Keller:
For goodness sake, Kit, keep your voice down, your father is listening to the radio.
 

Tags: Goodness Quotes   Listening Quotes     
Nelson Mandela - Quotes

 A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. 

Tags: education   goodness   intelligence   kindness   scholarship     
Mae West - Quotes

 When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.  

Tags: goodness   sexuality   virtue     
The Trumpet of the Swan - Quotes

 Father:
[after Sam saves Ella and Billie from a wolf, with Louie's warning] Thank goodness you are safe, my precious daughters. When I think of what could have happened with poor Louie here unable to cry out a warning! But I'm sure you tried your best, son.
Louie:
I did try! Can't he see how hard I tried?
Mother:
Darling, that human boy, he saved the lives of our children.
Father:
He has my eternal gratitude.
Sam:
Hey, it was no problem.
 

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Maya Angelou - Quotes

 Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. 

Tags: character   consistency   courage   determination   essence   ethos   fortitude   goodness   inspiration   persistence   resolve   strength   virtue   virtues     
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - Quotes

 The Log Lady:
[to Laura] When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy.
 

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Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie - Quotes

 Larry The Cable Guy:
I had a rough night. I had a dream that I drank the world's biggest margarita, and I woke up - there was salt around the toilet bowl. That's not good right there. Thank goodness I didn't eat the worm at the bottom, I'll tell you that right now.
 

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Primal Fear - Quotes

 Marty:
I chose to believe in the basic goodness of people. Some basically good people do some very bad things.
 

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The Critic - Quotes

 
[filming a commercial]
Orson Welles:
Rosebud... yes, Rosebud Frozen Peas! Full of country goodness and green pea-ness. Wait, that's terrible. I quit!
 

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Francesca Lia Block - Quotes

 Life was small but good. (15) 

Tags: goodness   life   simplicity   small     
Pleasantville - Quotes

 
[Pleasantville's first-ever rainstorm]
Big Bob:
Well, we're safe for now. Thank goodness we're in a bowling alley.
 

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. 

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always. 

Tags: despair   evil   goodness   inspirational   love   sadness   truth   victory     
Albert Camus - Quotes

 On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness. 

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. 

Tags: action   goodness   harmony   purity   thinking     
Jenny Valentine - Quotes

 I smiled back and I thought

how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn 

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J.K. Rowling - Quotes

 You are protected, in short, by your ability to love 

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Martin Luther - Quotes

 This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. 

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Sliding Doors - Quotes

 Anna:
Are you okay?
Helen:
Yes, just going quietly mad.
Anna:
Thank goodness for that. I was worried.
 

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Marcus Aurelius - Quotes

 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. 

Tags: goodness   integrity     
The Long Shot - Quotes

 Annie Garrett:
I know why you want Taylor in Denver. But why me?
Bonnie McCloud:
[frowns] That's a silly question.
Annie Garrett:
I don't think so.
Bonnie McCloud:
What's gotten into you?
Annie Garrett:
Just answer the question.
Bonnie McCloud:
Oh for goodness sake's, Annie, stop being melodramatic.
Annie Garrett:
Oh, I have pussy-footed around this for too many years, let's just get it out in the open right now, okay?
Bonnie McCloud:
I don't know what you're talking about!
Annie Garrett:
Katie's ghost. She permeates that house you call home.
Bonnie McCloud:
Why? Because I hang a few pictures of her on the walls?
Annie Garrett:
Pictures are great, but you've turned them into shrines, along with her whole bedroom!
Bonnie McCloud:
The memory of Katie lives in that room and will as long as I'm alive.
Annie Garrett:
You can cite how many ribbons she won and when she won them.
Bonnie McCloud:
Of course I can. I was there.
Annie Garrett:
How many have I won? Huh? I know you've always blamed me for Katie's death.
Bonnie McCloud:
That's a terrible thing to say.
Annie Garrett:
It's true. If I had picked up the ice-cream that night, she would still be alive.
Bonnie McCloud:
I don't blame you for that.
Annie Garrett:
Don't insult me by lying to my face. "She wasn't supposed to be driving, she was supposed to be home". That's what you said to me that night, Mother, and I heard it loud and clear.
Bonnie McCloud:
I had just lost a daughter!
Annie Garrett:
What, and I didn't lose anything?
Bonnie McCloud:
Losing a sister is not the same.
Bonnie McCloud:
Wrong! I lost more than Katie. That night, my mother died too. You emotionally died with her. I am trying to put away the guilt and move on with my life. Go home Mother, bury Katie, and get on with your own life. Taylor and I will be just fine.
 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Be good and you will be lonesome. 

Tags: goodness   loneliness     
Aphra Behn - Quotes

 There is no sinner like a young saint. 

Tags: goodness   saints   sinning     
Toba Beta - Quotes

 In the beginning..

when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all,

there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe.

That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness.

That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly

even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out. 

Tags: beginning   goodness   illuminate   knowledge   life   light   radiance   shine   universe     
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. 

Tags: animals   goodness   humanity   lambs   sheep     
Desmond Tutu - Quotes

 Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. 

Tags: goodness   kindness     
Daniel Nayeri - Quotes

 I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same. 

Tags: beauty   demonology   goodness   lies     
Charles Baudelaire - Quotes

 Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. 

Tags: evil   goodness     
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:



- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.

- I shall fear only God.

- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.

- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.

- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. 

Tags: bravery   goodness   humanity   justice   kindness   peace   suffering     
Jim Henson - Quotes

 When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.  

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C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) 

Tags: fantasy   goodness   safety   security     
Louisa May Alcott - Quotes

 Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. 

Tags: business   fame   goodness   honesty   honor   money   riches     
Margaret Mitchell - Quotes

 But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don 

Tags: flowers   goodness   graves   humanity     
Daniel Webster - Quotes

 The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.  

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Neil Gaiman - Quotes

 You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. 

Tags: goodness   heart   life   living     
C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 Badness is only spoiled goodness. 

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Robert A. Heinlein - Quotes

 But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. 

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Julius Lester - Quotes

 Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. 

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Leo Tolstoy - Quotes

 If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. 

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Colum McCann - Quotes

 Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for. 

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