Quotes About Good

It's frequently argued that plenty of good people work in criminal justice.

Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon,If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live;And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Envy destroys good deeds

Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good.

Failures are often the results of timidity and fears; disappointments are the results of bashfulness; hours of leisure pass away like summer-clouds, therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good.

So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.

He wraps it around him. It's a good fit, it smells leafy and fresh. He would make a good tailor. He has made something, made something of himself. His mother would be pleased at last. Oh God. Is there still mother after death?

nobody in their right minds could make that story any good. Is this a challenge to my right mind? Daniel said. Indubitably, Elisabeth said. Well then, Daniel said. My right mind will meet your challenge.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Human reasoning, she said—referring now explicitly to Socrates and Plato—human reasoning is imperfect. Human bias keeps us from perfect vision of what is happening around us. But the quest for truth—the quest to understand the world around us—must ultimately be how you enact the good.

can I be good and also save you?

Jung achava que a religião com demasiada frequência acentua o bem com a negação do mal. O mal não desaparece, apenas mergulha no inconsciente para ser projetado em outras pessoas.

When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?

Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.

Lorsque tu verras une bonne D'enfants, et non autre personne, Assise au milieu d'un tender Ou wagon de chemin de fer, Découvres-toi sur son passage, Salut à son noble visage ! Moralité A bonne en tender, salut. " (Fables de Joinville)

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

A value-creating man is a plausible substitute for a good man, and some such substitute becomes practically inevitable in pop relativism, since very few persons can think of themselves as just nothing. The respectable and accessible nobility of man is to be found not in the quest for or discovery of the good life, but in creating ones own life-style, of which there is not just one but many possible, none comparable to another.

Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of "non-contradictory joy" (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.

To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.