Quotes About Good

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

I reckon the gods laugh many a time to hear us, but what matters so long as we remember that we're only men and don't take to fancying that we're gods ourselves, really, knowing good and evil.

Then we'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others.

When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours.

In the evening we went to the opera to see 'The Little Minister'. It was good but not nearly so good as the book. I don't care for dramatized novels. They always jar on my preconceptions of the characters.

ought always to try to influence other people for good.

You're--you're going to give her something to eat, aren't you? When did you ever hear of me starving people into good behavior? demanded Marilla indignantly.

People experience the life-changing force of healing relationships when something powerful comes out of one and touches something good in another.

Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

One must travel all the way to the center. To know and hate evil is one path to knowing good.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant

For Cortés, the conquest was a struggle of good against evil, of the true god against false gods, of superior beings against inferior beings.

It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me?

The discipline of joy requires holding in the mind simultaneously that this too shall pass and that this too is good. This alchemy of mind isn't easy, but the good life is not always the easy life. Happiness requires effort. It is not just bestowed; it is the earned interest on what you choose to pay in.

Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.

I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

There had been a time when I'd believed my power was evil, but God didn't seem to feel that way, so until He changed His mind, I just had faith that my power came from the right side.

The powerless are sometimes only good because they are not strong enough to be evil

Remember, that the darkness is not bad, just different, and all that is good, or bad, is there in the light, or the dark, only our perception changes.

Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.