Quotes About Goodwill

A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

If we try to practice meditation without the foundation of goodwill to ourselves and others, it is like trying to row across a river without first untying the boat; our efforts, no matter how strenuous, will not bear fruit. We need to practice and refine our ability to live honestly and with integrity.

If I have a name out there from this thing called 'American Idol,' I don't understand why anyone wouldn't use it for good. That's the way the world should work.

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

Mrs. Watson radiated such warmth and goodwill, it was difficult not to exclaim with pleasure in her company: One felt seen and understood. Whereas in Holmes's company, one felt seen through and analyzed.

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

I enjoyed the goodwill of my colleagues because most of us had worked together intimately under tremendous pressures for more than a quarter century. Working isolated, under rules of tight security, instilled a camaraderie probably unique in the American workplace. I

Knowledge exists, and good will exists; but both remain impotent until they possess the proper organs for making themselves heard.

It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.

Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

Though I have all knowledge and all faith, and have not charity, I am nothing.

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

I have no ill intent toward anyone.

I think people generally have a good heart and the intention to help.