Quotes About Good

All I have ever wanted is to fight for what is good and clean and bright. All I want is to know who I am and where I belong. And I belong here, lord, as a Companion.

Common good, general will, historical necessity, are the names with which the flatterer christens the whims of force.

And so begin again by doing what I really want to do. Work. Aspiring to an existence with a lot of quiet in it. Turning from people I don't needing my life. Shunning bits busyness. Finding the courage to say no. I need to be good at being alive again.

You have no love for the good, then force yourself to do good, without any love for it. That will be counted an even greater merit for you than for one who does good for the love of it. Simply force yourself a few times then the love will come to you as well. Believe me, everything can be done.

Therefore, if it really be that you have no genuine love for doing good, do good by forcing yourself to do so.

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

We want relationships to last. We want families to stay together. We like it when the good guy wins. Fairy tales. I'm describing fairy tales.

It is impossible for us to accurately convey the real purpose of either Light or Darkness to such a mass of people from different homelands and with such differing viewpoints. Good is good, evil is evil. Unless we make everything black-and-white, we cannot inspire them to follow us

D.A. I got my orders—either the recordings and the witness' name, or I put a slug in you where it'll do the most good.

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy

You have sat here too long for any good you may be doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!

The first key, put in a sentence, has been this: that our "evils" are never the happenings in themselves, but the effect we allow them to have on us. No matter whether objectively an experience is apparently good or evil, subjectively, to the one who fears and doubts, all is evil; to the one who trusts, all is good.

Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself...

De la "eu sunt" porne?te drumul r?ului în jos ?i cel al binelui în sus.

No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world's literature.

What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.

The system is not bad it's the people working in it.

God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the rest of what we need within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny.

Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin May fell through the parlor floor today.

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

Every place has two characters— every place is double. What is sublime is also fallen. What is clement is at the same time base. In the deepest darkness lies the spark of the most powerful light, and vice versa: where omnipresent clarity reigns, a pit of darkness lurks inside the seed of light.

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing lately…. Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.