Top 300 Goodwill Quotes & Sayings

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.

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

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

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

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)

The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow From Within Your Own Being.

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.

I have goodwill in the film industry because I have always been disciplined.

Can there be any other gift in the world greater than the blessings and goodwill of people?

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

'Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.

I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.