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Quotes About Good

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
~ Thucydides
The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.
~ Sarada Devi
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
~ T.S. Eliot
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.
~ Stan Lee
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
~ Paul Samuelson
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
~ Baruch Spinoza
That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
~ Shirley Chisholm
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Be persistent in good actions.
~ Muhammad
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
~ Bhikkhu Bodhi
Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.
~ Richard Thaler
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
~ Robert Duvall
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
~ Sidney Poitier
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
~ Edmund Burke
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
~ Kathryn Stockett
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
~ Aristotle
You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.
~ Maria Sharapova
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
~ Peter Abelard
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
~ Saadi