Top 100 For Good Quotes
#1. The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories.
David Chiles
#2. Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.
John Steinbeck
#3. or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." He did not mean, of course, that religion turns all good people bad, but merely some of them,
Jerry A. Coyne
#4. I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.
Joe Ehrmann
#5. I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.
Jeff Fahey
#6. Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.
Michael Josephson
#7. We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.
Tony Dungy
#8. The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.
Marvin Ammori
#9. You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#10. There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons ... You'll wait and wait.
Susan Minot
#11. If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.
Steve Maraboli
#12. One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.
Giorgio Agamben
#13. Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.
Philip Whalen
#14. 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
#15. Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.
Jim Stovall
#16. Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.
Roy H. Williams
#17. I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#18. Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
Irving Stone
#19. The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world
Dennis Prager
#20. One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good
Albert Einstein
#21. There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and ... Photoshop
Tyra Banks
#22. I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids ... There aren't any good, brave causes left. (Jimmy Porter)
John Osborne
#23. Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
Kay Arthur
#24. Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.
Jordan Klepper
#25. Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.
Henry Boyd
#27. I believe in 'business has a force for good.' You know, business has an impact on society. Of course, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity, but on the other hand, we also leave a negative footprint behind.
Jochen Zeitz
#28. Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.
Miranda Liasson
#29. To create a new belief is easy but to understand and improve someone's concept and to develop it for good is difficult.
Vikram Roy
#30. I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
Halle Berry
#31. Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
William Kingdon Clifford
#32. Ralph started to scream in pain. Not that 'stubbed your toe' sort of pain, but more a kind of 'detached kneecap' kind of pain, only with seven simultaneous childbirths, neuralgia, and a tooth abscess all mixed in as well, for good luck. The sort you hope you never get to experience.
Jasper Fforde
#33. What's with the hair today?" He pokes it for good measure.
"I was tired this morning."
"Uh-huh. I can tell. You look like you brushed it with a fork."
"Worked for Ariel."
"Doesn't work for you.
Erynn Mangum
#34. Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
Jeremy Corbyn
#35. Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
Daniel C. Dennett
#37. The present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the
Charles Dickens
#38. Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#39. He said he thought it happened fast, both for my dad and Ben and for the drunk driver who hit them, but for the rest of the questions he said, We just don't know.
We just don't know.
Some things are gone for good. You can't get them back. You can't know what happened. Ever.
Ally Condie
#40. The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good.
Eric Butterworth
#41. He had never felt entirely comfortable around Raphael. Raphael seemed to him like Loki or some other trickster God, sometimes working for good and sometimes for evil, but always in his own interests.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you
Carl Sagan
#44. I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.
Isabelle Fuhrman
#45. Required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.
Ted Conover
#46. One promise of which we can be certain ... when we respond to trials with faith and trust, God will use our suffering for good, and it will point people to God and bring glory to Him.
Wendy Blight
#47. Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.
Virat Kohli
#48. I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood.
Timur Vermes
#49. I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.
Chris Hardwick
#50. If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.
Christopher Hitchens
#51. I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.
Sarah Palin
#52. We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
D.H. Lawrence
#55. You saved my life. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours.
Rainbow Rowell
#56. Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Jerry Saltz
#57. 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.
Ellie Goulding
#58. What passes for good luck is really an infinite number of little good decisions.
Richard Steinheimer
#59. My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.
James Nesbitt
#60. His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.
Irvine Welsh
#61. That something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.
Paul Bloom
#62. Just because someone thinks he is being attacked by the media doesn't mean he is. Many times the media actually is being fair, and they're attacking for good reason.
Roger Ailes
#63. It's said on my world that the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Will Bradshaw
Arthur Daigle
#64. The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
Geoff Mulgan
#65. Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.
Shane Claiborne
#66. All the same, I wish it was over for good or ill,' said Pippin. 'I am no warrior at all and dislike any thought of battle; but waiting on the edge of one that I can't escape is worst of all.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#67. War is nothing but a microcosm of peace ... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it ... for good or bad reasons.
Zainab Salbi
#68. Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good.
Anne Ursu
#69. There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
J.D. Robb
#70. A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.
Joan Oliver I Sallares
#72. My magic is not evil. It is a powerful force for good," Levet protested, his wings twitching with outrage. Really some demons. "I am like Batman. Only cuter.
Alexandra Ivy
#73. Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain,
Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain.
Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice,
But leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice.
Samuel Johnson
#74. And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#75. But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility.
Tony Judt
#76. For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#77. All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying
a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
Edward Abbey
#78. In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
Will Durant
#79. By which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All
Thomas Merton
#80. Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
Rick Warren
#81. Charity does not mean doing good to him who does good to you, for this is to return good for good. Charity means that you should do good to him who does you harm
Anonymous
#82. Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.
C.I. Scofield
#83. There's no worse enemy and no better friend than a brother, Tuan, for one brother knows another, and in perfect knowledge is strength for good or evil.
Joseph Conrad
#86. Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
Jandy Nelson
#87. I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.
Emma Donoghue
#88. It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.
Louise Bogan
#89. 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
#90. The more you see of evil, the more evil seems limitless. I guess the same goes for good, but I haven't seen as much of that.
Danielle Paige
#91. Difficulties are better for good persons and bad for bad persons ...
Wasif Ali Wasif
#92. From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people ...
Mary McCarthy
#93. On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed ...
Starhawk
#94. Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
Mark Udall
#96. But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
Hunter S. Thompson
#97. I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick DeWitt
#98. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
#99. The most beautiful women I know are passionate, curious, funny and have a deep sense of purpose and they are all over 70! Finding these qualities in myself, and celebrating them in other women is the starting place of being Gorgeous for Good.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#100. If you can't go for good deeds, don't go for bad ones.
Waseem Latif