The Good Quotes

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

God save us from people who mean well.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.

I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.