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Quotes About Good

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.
~ Anita Nair
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
~ Aristotle
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
~ Rebecca West
The Savior's way of life is good.
~ Russell M. Nelson
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
~ Georges Bataille
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
~ Helen Keller
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
~ Albert Schweitzer
I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.
~ Joyce Meyer
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
~ Knut Hamsun
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
~ Leland Stanford
They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.
~ Lynn Redgrave
Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
~ Hannah
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Plato
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
~ Thomas a Kempis
It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.
~ Peter Forsberg
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
~ Richard Branson
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
~ Richard Dawkins
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
~ Robert Breault
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
~ Saul Alinsky
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
~ St. Jerome
I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux