998 Quotes Regarding Good


Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

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

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

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