For Good Quotes

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

I'm very young. This gives me a perfect opportunity to play for a good team and be close to home, to grow as a player. (on signing for D.C. United)

The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Not even death can wipe out our good deeds

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.