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Quotes About Good

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
~ Socrates, Apology
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.
~ Nick Offerman
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
~ Tacitus
I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me.
~ Jeff Goldblum
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.
~ Epicurus
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.
~ Sarah Dessen
Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
~ Liev Schreiber
I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.
~ Marc Maron
Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.
~ Matt Damon
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
~ Sophocles, Antigone
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
~ Plutarch
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
~ Voltaire
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
~ Philemon
With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
~ Basil Moreau
Do good. Inspire. Set an example to yourself and others. Have faith. Make your actions loud. Have fun. Be nice. Love strong.
~ Jessie J
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
~ Alexander Hamilton
As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
~ Juliet Marillier
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
~ James Mackintosh
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
~ Pope John Paul II
Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.
~ Molly Friedenfeld
An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The best revenge is happiness, because nothing drives people more crazy then seeing someone actually living a good life.
~ Unknown