Top 100 Good Is Quotes
#1. What good is treasure if I'm alone? After sharing so much of our dreams instead of sacrificing them and leaving with you. I would rather have nothing at all!
Nami
#2. It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone
Leigh Hunt
#3. For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
John Steinbeck
#4. Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts
she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#5. What good is a quilt if it's unused? The same as a life unused. They're meant to be wrung out and frayed around the edges. That's the way of things. Always has been. Always will be.
Amber Kizer
#7. Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.
Henri Poincare
#8. Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato
#9. What good is dating a cop if I can't use his get-out-of-jail-free card now and then?
Paige Tyler
#10. To me, my idea of what's good is to drive here and go to Waffle House, get a couple of eggs and a waffle. When I see the first Waffle House, I know I'm in the South. That's good.
Neil Gaiman
#11. The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
Seth Godin
#12. War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
#14. Sometimes it's like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it's not even close yet, still, just knowing it's coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of. -Jack
Gary D. Schmidt
#15. What good is love if you never ask anything of it?
Robert Breault
#16. Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake
#18. The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#19. Being good is making it look easy, but getting good is never easy.
Jeffrey Fry
#20. If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Idries Shah
#21. What has made men good is neither nature nor reason but tradition.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#22. The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#23. To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
John Calvin
#24. What is life? a tale that is told;
What is life? a frenzy extreme,
A shadow of things that seem;
And the greatest good is but small,
That all life is a dream to all,
And that dreams themselves are a dream.
-Segismundo
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#25. Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#26. I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine Albright
#27. You're afraid? But that's what life is. There are bad surprises, yes. Awful surprises sometimes. But what makes the good surprises so good is that they're unexpected.
A.L. Player
#28. The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never get scared or turned all over
J.D. Salinger
#29. Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
#30. Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
Vincent De Paul
#31. One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.
Ibn Majah
#33. Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
#34. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?
Raphael Carter
#36. Not everything that tastes good is good!
Eric Plotts
#37. Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man's playbook...
Assegid Habtewold
#38. But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
Chris Cleave
#40. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
Plutarch
#41. Writers are b*tc*ing about 140 characters. If you can't make a point in two sentences, how good is that book of yours really going to be?
Taken from Twitter Titters Volume 1 edited by John Rice
A.W. Tozer
#42. The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
Bert Hellinger
#43. Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
John Dryden
#44. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.
Lynn Johnston
#46. It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#47. A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.
Helen Fielding
#48. Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.
Gautama Buddha
#49. The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"
Kurt Fuller
#50. To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
Plutarch
#52. Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
Jonathan Ive
#53. Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
Wayne Dyer
#55. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
Plautus
#56. Policymakers usually justify these measures by using a balancing argument in which the greater good is held to outweigh the suspension of civil liberties. Even in democracies, serious threats to state authority
Clarence Augustus Martin
#57. What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
Simon Sinek
#58. Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil.
Ravi Zacharias
#59. Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated*
Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why don't things like that ever happen to me?
Charles M. Schulz
#60. Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others - all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.
Ayn Rand
#62. Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.
Sister Souljah
#64. What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience
Terence McKenna
#65. Trust me, I'm looking forward to it. But it's like cramming a whole ice cream cone in my mouth and swallow it whole. What good is that? It's over and done in a second. I want to really taste it, to lick it slowly. I want to savor the ice cream, you know what I'm saying?
Erin McCarthy
#66. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire
#67. Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.
Toni Morrison
#68. Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.
Lewis B. Smedes
#69. A Democratic congressman said that he worries that the IRS scandal might have a chilling effect on the IRA and that they might be afraid to audit people. So finally some good is coming out of all of this.
Jay Leno
#70. What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
Steven Tyler
#72. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
William Blake
#73. Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence.
John Parsons
#74. I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked.
C.M. Stunich
#75. The money in the chorus isn't very good, is it?!" she said. "No." It was less than you'd get for scrubbing floors. The reason was that, when you advertised a dirty floor, hundreds of hopefuls didn't turn up.
Terry Pratchett
#76. The evil that men do lives after them. the good is interred with their bones.
Stanley Yokell
#77. The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#78. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#79. The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.
James Swain
#80. Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
Darin Strauss
#81. London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
Dorothy Parker
#83. What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
Jennifer Niven
#84. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Frederick Lenz
#85. I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.
Carrie Underwood
#87. Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
Aldous Huxley
#88. Since the early days of humankind, dancing was always an expression of feeling good, and making someone feel good is the main intention of DJ'ing. I don't see the point of playing a record that makes people stand there, look at you and say Umm, very interesting
Paul Van Dyk
#89. Without peace in your life ... what good is anything else?
Timothy Pina
#90. Higher good is like water:
the good in water benefits all,
and does so without contention.
It rests where people dislike to be,
so it is close to the Way.
Good ground;
profound is the good in its heart,
Benevolent the good it bestows.
Lao-Tzu
#91. Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Idries Shah
#92. Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in play will be balanced against the utility to be derived from other obtainable goods.
Murray Rothbard
#93. What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?
Tony Robbins
#94. Feeling good is what you should be doing every day of your life.
Wayne Dyer
#95. The effects of preaching are a miracle." A good preacher converts persons; he casts out devils from the hearts of those whom he changes from sin to holiness. This he could not do without power from God. But what seems good, is often not good.
J.C. Ryle
#97. ...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.
G.E. Moore
#98. What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Guy Finley
#100. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Edith Hamilton
