Good Will Quotes

“In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Nobel Prize-Winning History of World War II

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor (I Cor. 10:24). Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community. It is insistence on community even when one seeks to break it. Agape is a willingness to sacrifice in the interest of mutuality. Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community. It doesn't stop at the first mile, but it goes the second mile to restore community. It is a willingness to forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven to restore community.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“In the final analysis, agape means a recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself. For example, white men often refuse federal aid to education in order to avoid giving the Negro his rights; but because all men are brothers they cannot deny Negro children without harming their own. They end, all efforts to the contrary, by hurting themselves. Why is this? Because men are brothers. If you harm me, you harm yourself.

Love, agape, is the only cement that can hold this broken community together. When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story