Quotes About Good

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

He saw everything external as being separate from himself, and fell into the trap of dualism, rather than seeing the mind as a mirror with the capacity to reflect without dualistic notions of good and bad. Her home is the first thought before we solidify what we perceive, when we let perception in without putting all impressions into pigeonholes.

Our choices are what make us good or evil – what we do, how we help or hurt the world. You make the world a better place by being in it. With or without magic, that's always been true.

I mean . . . there are dragons who do bad things, Fathom said. But maybe that doesn't make them all bad. Maybe they can also do good things. Maybe some of those bad things are just mistakes.

He is not a 'super-stealth' or a 'fighting evil' kind of dragon. He is a 'but do the bad guys know about pandas because then I bet they wouldn't be evil anymore' kind of dragon." "Well, but," Sky protested, "I mean … pandas! Have you SEEN pandas?

Stop making the perfect enemy of the good.

At its core, naked service boils down to the ability of a service provider to be vulnerable—to embrace uncommon levels of humility, selflessness, and transparency for the good of a client.

Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.

There is a proverb in Ireland,' said Stephen, 'to the effect that there is good to be found even in an Englishman – is minic Gall maith. It is not often used, however.

Le mal même comporte son bien qu'il ne faut pas laisser perdre

La tentación del hombre moderno es la pretensión de no necesitar de Dios para poder hacer el bien

cynicism enables you to do nothing but feel morally superior to those who are doing something good but imperfect in an imperfect

avoiding anger governs our ability to do damage, it also limits our ability to do good.

glory and accomplishment are of far less importance than the creation of character and the individual good life.

The difference between design and research seems to be a question of new versus good.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C.S.LEWIS

Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one.

With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle in darkness, hidden from the Word that brings the light. — Paul Hill Paraphrasing of Edmund Burke, John Dalberg, and John 1:1-5 quotes.

the understanding is stimulated by the quest of ultimate truth; the will is stirred by basically known truth to choose what is truly good.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

Quiet, ordinary people are often the only people with the real ability to defeat evil. They can give it the Rwandan no.

She had had a good life. It had its comic elements. Its scattered relics had not been and now can never all be retrieved; but some of them were blessed by the good intentions that created them.

Lines from William Blake's Jerusalem came to mind: He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.

Others were just as singular and well traveled and full of promise. I felt I was in good hands.