Quotes About Goodwill

Even Clark French's novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low point; the novels predictably ended in a crescendo of benevolence.

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam War, and feminist movements, she was also a student of history. Her sense was that as bad as things had been in the sixties, people of goodwill still dominated. The

Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.

Good will starts out fat and sweet as tub butter and turns slowly rancid. It must be made again daily if we want it fresh.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

I nurture very good intentions about you. May you die in peace.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

If you give love, respect to others then surely you will recieve love and respect from others. That's why we should learn to give good things to others.

Let all that you do, be done in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:14

This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis and people of good will in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

We all pay dearly when people respond to our values and needs not out of a desire to give from the heart but out of fear, guilt, or shame. Sooner or later, we will experience the consequences of diminished goodwill on the part of those who comply with our values out of a sense of either external or internal coercion.

Kindness should be immortalized every bit as much as power.

In this we see clearly that the Apostle lays down this rule for a Christian life: that all our works should be directed to the advantage of others, since every Christian has such abundance through his faith that all his other works and his whole life remain over and above wherewith to serve and benefit his neighbour of spontaneous goodwill.

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.

Heaven give you many, many merry days! - from The Merry Wives of Windsor

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

You can't buy goodwill with money that ain't yours. It's not a favor to pay what's owed.