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Quotes About Good

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
~ Hillary Clinton
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
~ William Shakespeare
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find his business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is strongly equable.
~ Napoleon Hill
Do not fear the power that works out things in the invisible. When you get a strong perception of something that your inner mind tells you is true and good, act on it and your demonstration will come. That is the way a living faith works, and it is the law of your creative word.
~ Napoleon Hill
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
~ Napoleon Hill
But the larger point is that we can now see that depriving systems of stressors, vital stressors, is not necessarily a good thing, and can be downright harmful.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As Ennius wrote, "The good is mostly in the absence of bad"; Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you don't have debt you don't care about your reputation in economics circles—and somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Just
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As we saw, nature has a filter to keep the good baby and get rid of the bad.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We know with much more clarity what is bad than what is good.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The good is not as good as the absence of bad.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
However, to think of stimulating the mind of the child usually requires a higher level of consciousness (and of patience) of the parent than does the practice of handing down ready-made solutions. Impatience is often the enemy of good parenting.
~ Nathaniel Branden
There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A good man's prayers are golden recompense! rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave. Yea, they are the current gold coin of the New Jerusalem, with the King's own mint-mark on them!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The future is yet full of trial and success. There is happiness to be enjoyed! There is good to be done! Exchange this false life of thine for a true one.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I said, but now, that there could be no good event for him, or thee, or me, who are here wandering together in this gloomy maze of evil, and stumbling, at every step, over the guilt wherewith we have strewn our path.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
~ Neal Shusterman
I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.
~ Neal Shusterman
There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.
~ Neal Shusterman
People can be monsters. Whether it's just their actions, or whether it's who they really are, it doesn't matter. The result is the same.
~ Neal Shusterman
aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
~ Neal Shusterman