Good Quotes

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.