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- The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Good
- The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
- Patti Smith on Good
- The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
- Dalai Lama on Good
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
- Bertrand Russell on Good
- The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
- Louis Farrakhan on Good
- The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Good
- The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Good
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain on Good
- The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
- Martin Luther on Good
- The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Good
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward on Good
- The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
- The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
- Swami Vivekananda on Good
- The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell on Good
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
- Thomas Carlyle on Good
- The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
- The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Good
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill on Good
- The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock on Good
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke on Good
- The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
- Ernest Hemingway on Good
- The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
- Ray Manzarek on Good
- The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde on Good
- The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson on Good
- The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry on Good
- The pay is good and I can walk to work.
- John F. Kennedy on Good
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- Jane Austen on Good
- The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
- The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- Rene Descartes on Good
- The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
- Lyn Nofziger on Good
- The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt on Good
- The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
- The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
- Tony Dungy on Good
- The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on Good
- The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner on Good
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
- Drew Barrymore on Good
- The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol on Good
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson on Good
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Good
- The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Good
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Richard Dawkins on Good
- The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
- George Washington on Good
- The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
- M. Scott Peck on Good
- The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Good
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