Be A Force For Good Quotes

#1. As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it."

Sergey Brin

#2. Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#3. Business must be a force for good in the world.

David Cooperrider

#4. Higher states of consciousness correlate strongly with attributes like compassion, forgiveness, generosity and kindness. The more one is self-aware and other-aware, and the greater one's connection with the spiritual, the more likely one will be a force for good in our world.

Philip Chard

#5. Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

Jim Stovall

#6. The United States, the President said, "must be a force for good." Americans focused on "good." Much of the world focused on "force," on being handled.

Ron Suskind

#7. Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Russell Conwell

#8. The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good ... America really deserves more credit.

Bill Bryson

#9. The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Bill Gates

#10. The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

Fred Thompson

#11. If you don't have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don't use it in the first place.

Ted Lieu

#12. The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

David R. Brower

#13. The only force that can conquer evil is good.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. The difference is that raving fans, unlike satisfied customers, become part of your sales force. They tell friends, family and co-workers about your services and your products. And, of course, good things will happen!

Mac Anderson

#16. My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

Anita Roddick

#17. Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Raheel Farooq

#18. The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

George Eliot

#19. It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

James Iha

#20. We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

Jonathan Sacks

#21. Pity the fool who has the good fortune to fall for you,

Marie Force

#22. Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

J. Oswald Sanders

#23. Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.

Ernie J Zelinski

#24. FIRST MORAL
Good manners are not easy
They need a little care,
But when we least expect it
Bring rewards both rich and rare.
SECOND MORAL
Brute force or bribes of diamonds
Bend others to your will,
But gentle words have greater power
And gain more conquests still.

Charles Perrault

#25. There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

Shirley Chisholm

#26. Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

David Price

#27. Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Brian Kernighan

#28. From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

Patricia Heaton

#29. There is never going to be a good time for us. You can't force together two objects whose edges are worn in some spots and jagged in others. We're not puzzle pieces. We're two people who have a world of shit between them. But my mind is quiet when our gazes meet.

Rebecca Paula

#30. Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Tim Pawlenty

#31. Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

Evander Holyfield

#32. You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

Jonah Goldberg

#33. Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for ... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Robert Winston

#34. If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

Peter Mandelson

#35. I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

John Coltrane

#36. Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

Cornelius Plantinga

#37. Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

Michael Hastings

#38. Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.

Bram Stoker

#39. We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

Pierre Omidyar

#40. It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

Jesse Robredo

#41. Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue
To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

George Herbert

#42. I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

Caroline Myss

#43. An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

Sri Aurobindo

#44. Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Milton Friedman

#45. 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

#46. I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

Sam Childers

#47. Everyone on this planet has spirit within them as an all powerful force for good.

Wayne Dyer

#48. Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct ...

William J. Murray

#49. Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

Charlie Norwood

#50. America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin

#51. We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.

Jason Chaffetz

#52. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#53. Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Monica Ali

#54. Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he'd gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn't say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.

Karin Slaughter

#55. It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#56. Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.

Paul Dano

#57. The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Amit Abraham

#58. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.

Bob Mcdowell

#59. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

Adolf Hitler

#60. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

David Soul

#61. Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress ... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

Walter E. Williams

#62. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

Brandon Boyd

#63. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#64. As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

David Puttnam

#65. While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

Kara Swisher

#66. I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Dick Gregory

#67. Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Robert Southwell

#68. The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Nora Ephron

#69. Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward.

Melinda Gates

#70. An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Ayn Rand

#71. Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

Lorna Goodison

#72. we love the way Jesus loves, good things will happen all in good time; if we try to force God's hand, we will only wind up with a lot of frustration and disappointment.

Bill Searcey

#73. It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice.

Bear Grylls

#74. I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

Sally Kirkland

#75. I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Amy Jo Martin

#76. You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.

Richard Branson

#77. I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something you're more familiar with, because I do not understand it in terms of something you are more familiar with.

Richard Feynman

#78. You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

Rick Riordan

#79. Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

Alexander Hamilton

#80. Today was a good day for Hill Air Force Base and Utah.

Rob Bishop

#81. The Jedi shackle themselves in chains of obedience: obedience to the Jedi Council; obedience to their Masters; obedience to the Republic. Those who follow the light side even believe they must submit themselves to the Force. They are merely instruments of its will, slaves to a greater good.

Drew Karpyshyn

#82. Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Joe Biden