Good Will Quotes

“In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.”
― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War

“Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.”
― Ronald Reagan, The Quest for Peace, The Cause of Freedom

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity—and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“There is strength in numbers, yes, but even more so in collective good will. For those endeavors are supported by mighty forces unseen.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Bože moj...
Prošao sam kroz Vukovar mnogo puta...(...)
Kad sam dolazio sa zapadne strane, iz Italije, sa mora, iz Zagreba ili Ljubljane, tu sam prvi put nailazio na putokaz za Novi Sad, i, iako je kraj imena moje varoši čitko pisalo ''82 km'', tog momenta sam, iz bezbroj razloga, uvek računao da sam stigao Kući?
Dudule je u pravu, liče, još kako liče...
Ne samo zbog Dunava, bokora zelenila, austrougarskih kućerina i rasipnički širokih ulica, već (i uglavnom), zbog pitomosti, zbog onog retkog osjećaja koji mi se javljao samo u naročitim gradovima, da bi tu i u tri po ponoći mogao prošetati s Onom Koju Volim, ne zazirući od automobila koji usporavaju, i ne prelazeći na drugu stranu kad neko naiđe u susret...
Puno puta je vukovarski vazduh pirnuo pod svodovima mojih pluća, svirala je tu ona ista muzika na koju i ja plešem svoj život, mirni ljudi i stabilne lađe, tesne suknje i komotne čarde, obala i gimnazija, korzo i pozorište, sasvim dovoljno za pametnog čoveka...
A opet...
Bojim se da na taj gradić nikad više neću pomisliti onako kako ga se sećam, nego onako kako mi se prikazao u sledećoj Duletovoj tišini, u onoj poslednjoj, najdužoj, koju nisam ni uspeo da odbrojim do kraja, jer je otišao nenadano, ne rekavši pozdrav...”
― Đorđe Balašević

“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“The heart of a yogi should always bear good-will and thoughts that benefit others.”
― Amit Ray, OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment

“I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.”
― Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

“Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.”
― Kant Emmanuel

“What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that he exerts thereby a useful influence over the community, thus having a great worth both in relation to his own happy condition and to the benefit of others, if he does not possess a good will?”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment

“...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...”
― Marquis de Sade

“It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

“We must let our every act be out of love, and for the greater good of all.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Kindness is still the best antidote.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta.”
― Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics

“Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“A necessary condition for interior peace, then, is what we might call goodwill. We could also call it purity of heart. It is the stable and constant disposition of a person who is determined more than anything to love God, who desires sincerely to prefer in all circumstances the will of God to his own, who does not wish to consciously refuse anything to God.”
― Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

“The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The greatest evidence of authentic good will is the way we treat people with whom we passionately disagree.”
― Father Jonathan Morris

“...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.”
― Thomas Sydenham

“Sacred greetings!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you." Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it, and 'no weapon that is formed against him shall prosper.' In other words, love and good will destroy the enemies within one's self therefore, onehas no enemies on the external! "There is peace on earth for him who sends goodwill to man!”
― Florence Scovel-Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“When you love yourself, you love others and others love you, and when you have worked so hard to earn a place in society where you can contribute something that improves the lives of countless beneficiaries, impacting not only their present but their future, I say you need to live longer and keep on serving until your very last breath.”
― Master Del Pe, Higher Science of Longevity

“Benevolence is not just an active way of expressing love and kindness, but also abstinence from harmful thoughts, words and actions. Start and end your day with intentions of good will.”
― Master Del Pe