Quotes About Good

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

God always knows our conscious, if it's bad He will stricken it, if it's good He will keep it clear, if you have no conscious then you're dead to God.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.