Quotes About Good

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

If happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, then we must be happy for all that comes into our life, for even misfortune blesses us if it builds our character and strengthens our faith in pursuing that which is good and noble.

Thank you. I haven't been able to eat much. Rawhide's meals lean toward tough, mostly burned meat. Maybe a good meal will help me regain some strength and knit these bones a bit faster.

By this these Angels from an evil sprite, Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright. Licence

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer." "I sometimes think I should have been a good one." "Why?" "Because I am patient.

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.

But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

I understand what you are feeling," he said. "As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

What is democracy, Lysis?"—"It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.

Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist. He described the degrees of friendship, up from the self-seeking to the pure, when good is willed to the friend for the friend's own sake. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist... Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

There is always going to be bad in the world. I think that is what makes being good so important.

Although it is our hope to overcome death by the power of life and it is an ethical imperative to conquer evil by the power of good, whether it is possible in actual human life is another question.

While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.