The Good Quotes

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves, / Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15, 000 people]

Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

The best is the enemy of good.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

It is only goodness which gives extra...

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but wecan’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

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.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.

...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

I think you can have 10, 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.