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Quotes About Good

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
~ Aristotle
You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.
~ Dana Reeve
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
~ Cunningham Geikie
Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
~ Dan Millman
Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.
~ Marcel Marceau
The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.
~ Robert Collier
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
~ Gautama Buddha
Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.
~ Jim Butcher
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
~ Ben Harper
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
~ John Shelby Spong
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
~ Cassandra Clare
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
~ Eugenio Montale
Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
~ Joseph Campbell
I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
~ Loretta Lynn
When this happens, when you must protect yourself or those in your care, the real sin would be in taking life easily. The only way to maintain any humanity is to remember the faces of those who've died. To carry them within ourselves so that whatever good might have remained in their spirits has someplace to dwell. You cannot kill, then forget their faces without forgetting some part of yourself.
~ Jewelle L. Gómez
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
~ Jewish proverb
10(Hailg the just man, for he shall fare well; He shall eat the fruit of his works. 11Woe to the wicked man, for he shall fare ill; As his hands have dealt, so shall it be done to him.)
~ Jewish Publication Society
I imagine there are few, if any, in the World, so weake as to imagine, that the little Good we can do here, can merit so vast a Reward hereafter. There
~ Jill Lepore
No one is all good or all bad. You can love your father because he clothed and fed you, but you can hate him because he's a man and tragically flawed.
~ Jillian Medoff
Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.
~ Jim Benton
God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory.
~ Jim Berg
involved. For the sake of Dallas it would be a good thing to present the assassination as solved to the press of the world.
~ Jim Bishop