Quotes About Good

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.