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Quotes About Good

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Smile is a good reply to the dark world.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Must we do not know all the good that a simple smile can do
~ sandy Khoury
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.
~ Swami Vivekananda
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.
~ John Adams
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.
~ Zosia Mamet
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.
~ zusak markus ii
Wonderful news, a lovely day, but I don't trust good news and I don't like good weather. Dread has been my faithful companion, and without it I am alone.
~ Abigail Thomas
One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. "If he performs one good deed, blessed is he for he moves the scale both for himself and for the entire world to the side of merit; if he commits one transgression, woe to him for he moves to the side of guilt himself and the whole world.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
to the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Liberals think it to be for the welfare of the people and the good of the country that distances should be reduced and gradually annihilated." "Gradually annihilated"—it's a stronger term than it may seem.
~ Adam Gopnik
Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick.
~ Adam Gopnik
Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.
~ Adam Smith
Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that?
~ Adrian McKinty
She remembers Voltaire's warning about the perfect being the enemy of the good.
~ Adrian McKinty
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone
~ Adriana Trigiani
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone The time wasted
~ Adriana Trigiani
You cannot have the joy of Easter without the agony of Good Friday
~ Adriana Trigiani
As a solider, Ciro had learned that good men can't fix what evil men are intent on destroying. He had learned to choose what was worth holding on to, and what was worth fighting for. Every man had to decide that for himself, and some never did. He had not survived the Great War to return home the same man.
~ Adriana Trigiani