Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham LincolnWhen I do good I feel good. When I do bad I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham LincolnLove sought is good but given unsought is better.
William ShakespeareHe who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath TagoreA bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one - it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous HuxleyThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark TwainIn the arena of human life. the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
AristotleBuying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
BuddhaI do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is....
BuddhaA good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheAll virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
AristotleOur doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William ShakespeareDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinEach year one vicious habit discarded in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark TwainNo, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen KingWhat a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark TwainBelieve nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever after due examination and analysis you find to be kind conducive to the good the benefit the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide
BuddhaAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareA dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
BuddhaBeing generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions, this is the best good luck.
BuddhaTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerEndure and persist, this pain will turn to good by and by.
OvidFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayBeing deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words, this is good luck.
BuddhaTalk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineThe good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole FranceEvil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time becomes good at another time to somebody else.
MenciusAll good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest HemingwayHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph AddisonHe who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath TagoreGo to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Henry RollinsAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth, come only from the senses.
Friedrich NietzscheTrue religion is real living, living with all one's soul with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert EinsteinEvery day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen KingDoing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see it growth but it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see it damage but it does by days.
BuddhaHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinGod judged it better to bring good out of evil, than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint AugustineMan has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel New York wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.
Douglas AdamsIt is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
AristotleHe who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
AristotleA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOnce to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell LowellIt is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult, that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria RilkeI don't think of myself as a poor, deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who, from an early age, knew I was responsible for myself and I had to make good.
Oprah WinfreyVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaHow far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William ShakespeareNo man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C. S. LewisThere is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C. S. LewisWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them, for good or ill.
BuddhaIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness, and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinWriting is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Herman HesseTruly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad AliGood nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph Addison