Good Quotes

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

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

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

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

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.