998 Quotes Regarding Good


It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Johnny Depp

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
Leo Buscaglia

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
Kid Rock

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry