998 Quotes Regarding Good


Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill

Every 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 Goethe

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

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

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi

The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson

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

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina Jolie

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson