Quotes About Good

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

May the good God pardon all good men.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

She was a gift he hadn't let himself ask for. But God was good and provided what he needed.

Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good.

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

They also thought there were spirits called 'daimons' around. Some were good and protected you; some were evil and could lead you into wickedness.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! "Father, the atheists?" Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of God of the first class! We are created children in the likeness of God and the Blood of Christ has redeemed us all! And we all have a duty to do good. And this commandment for everyone to do good, I think, is a beautiful path towards peace.