Quotes About Good

The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Let's toast a real wine expert - someone who knows a good rose goes best with bologna sandwiches.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.