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Quotes About Good

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
~ Henry David Thoreau
do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?" "Good for what?" asked the Doctor. "You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
~ Henry James
I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
~ Henry Rollins
And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
~ Honore de Balzac
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
~ Isabel Paterson
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
~ Jack Nicklaus
It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
~ James Cook
In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.
~ James Surowiecki
JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.
~ Jamie Dimon
When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.
~ Jane Fonda
I kind of follow that when I get dressed. I think if it's comfortable and it's cozy and it kind of makes you feel good, then those are good reasons to wear something.
~ Jared Leto
Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.
~ Jay Rayner
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
~ Jean Ingelow
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I like blogs. they're good times.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
~ Jeremiah
Change is good but dollars are better. - Tara daniels
~ Jill Shalvis
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
~ Jim Butcher
Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.
~ Jim Rohn
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.
~ Joan Wallach Scott