Good Quotes

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday."

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory."

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

"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."

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."