Top 100 Highest Good Quotes
#1. You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.
Melody Beattie
#2. There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up, believer and unbeliever alike, to enjoy the light.
C.K. Gold
#3. The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
Aristotle.
#4. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.
Oprah Winfrey
#5. One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
Patrick O'Brian
#7. The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#8. The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness
Aristotle.
#9. A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
Saul Bellow
#10. People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives - or their jobs. Well, if that's really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse's or partner's. There is a plan for everyone.
Echo Bodine
#11. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
Dan Millman
#12. The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.
Lisa Wingate
#13. Each visible planet is the embodiment of a great and exalted spiritual intelligence Who is the minister of God in that department of His Kingdom, endeavoring to carry out His Will, the latter having in view the ultimate highest good, regardless of temporary ill.
Max Heindel
#14. What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.
Echo Bodine
#15. All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe. It will work miracles in your life.
Louise L. Hay
#16. The only object which ought to be enjoyed is the triune God, who is our highest good and our true happiness.
Augustine Of Hippo
#17. My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
Wayne Dyer
#18. Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.
Dan Millman
#19. What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Aristotle.
#20. The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#21. It's important to have a vision of the long run and make wise decisions for our highest good in the present moment; however, we don't want to become attached to how everything must look. When we show up in good faith, life provides. And when we trust, we are always in the flow of manifestation.
Alaric Hutchinson
#22. Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.
Deepak Chopra
#23. For centuries you have been taught that love-sponsored action arises out of the choice to be, do, and have whatever produces the highest good for another. Yet I tell you this: the highest choice is that which produces the highest good for you.
Neale Donald Walsch
#24. Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#25. They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest secondary and subordinate.
Aldous Huxley
#26. Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.
Isocrates
#27. The proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.
Robert Farrar Capon
#28. If we do our best, and things do not unfold according to our plans, trust that everything has happened for your highest good.
Robin S. Sharma
#29. The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.
Seneca.
#30. My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.
Jack Canfield
#31. The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.
Alan Cohen
#32. As you ask for guidance throughout your day, you will notice you are easily guided to the people, places and situations for your highest good.
Catherine Carrigan
#33. Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.
Laozi
#34. If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong ... no desire to live with integrity ... no faith in God ... their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life's highest good.
Billy Graham
#35. Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
C.S. Lewis
#36. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.
Elizabeth Hunter
#37. Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Felix Adler
#38. If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love
Amy Carmichael
#40. You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen.
Marie Forleo
#41. When you are in neutral, you are completely open to whatever information needs to come through at that time for the highest good. We simply can't be neutral if our emotions get in the way.
Catherine Carrigan
#42. Karma, which originally meant "action" or "deed" in Sanskrit, is about this system of reviewing our previous deeds and choosing differently. Karma doesn't get back to us unexpectedly. We get back to karma for our highest good. It's like going back to where we bookmarked.
Akemi G
#43. ...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first to the young plants, and after that to the others. - Socrates
Plato
#44. The power of manifestation is great but you must intend to manifest which is in the highest good of everyone. That's why it's essential to meditate and listen to your intuition.
Hina Hashmi
#45. Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
Epicurus
#46. Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.
Catherine Carrigan
#47. If happiness is the highest good of a rational nature, and if what can be taken from you in any way cannot be the highest (for what cannot be taken away ranks higher than what can), it is obvious that the fluidity of Fortune cannot hope to win happiness. 24
Boethius
#48. Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we alter a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face the severing or alteration of a relationship even when we know such change is for the highest good.
Julia Cameron
#49. The EKC or Holy Spirit, can lift the most common beginning to the highest good. Yet to secceed, we must surrender our little self to achieve divine love.
Harold Klemp
#50. Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
Paracelsus
#51. If I truly believe in Him, I'll trust Him to desire for me that which is for my highest good, and to have planned for its fulfillment.
Helen Rose
#52. No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#53. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#54. Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.
Epicurus
#55. The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
Carl Jung
#56. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.'
Jan Karon
#57. If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
Deborah Day
#58. Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
Augustine Of Hippo
#59. If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
John Calvin
#60. Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.
Brent Weeks
#61. The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.
Charles Spurgeon
#62. Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.
Julia Cameron
#63. When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.
Louise Hay
#64. If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere ...
Marlo Morgan
#65. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#66. The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.
Charles Fillmore
#67. If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
Tryon Edwards
#68. Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.
Leonard Pitts
#69. The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. Salus populi suprema lex esto. Let the good (or safety) of the people be the supreme (or highest) law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#71. In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.
Henry Highland Garnet
#72. Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.
Julie Foudy
#73. To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field for the crusade of mankind is a world in which to succeed is the highest indignity that ca befall a good man, it is a world in which geed men are shut up like gods in a lavatory.
Michael Arlen
#74. Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!
Arthur W. Pink
#75. The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles
#76. The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.
Max Von Stephanitz
#77. Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life ... within a given age in a given society ... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal ... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.
Leo Tolstoy
#78. Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others ... cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
#79. A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
Aristotle.
#80. The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
William Barclay
#81. I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.
Donald Driver
#82. The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.
Gardiner Spring
#83. A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more.
Zoroaster
#84. It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
Ben Jonson
#85. Oil the saw, sharpen axes,
Learn the names of all the peaks you see and which is highest-
there are hundreds-
Learn by heart the drainages between
Go find a shallow pool of snowmelt on a good day, bathe in the lukewarm water.
Gary Snyder
#86. The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul Ricoeur
#88. The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
Abraham Maslow
#89. Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.
Helen Thomas
#90. Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes completely good and kind, and disbelieves in the very possibility of evil, unhappiness, and sorrow.
Leo Tolstoy
#91. If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.
Max Heindel
#92. If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live
Leo Tolstoy
#93. You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.
Russell M. Nelson
#94. There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.
John Bevere
#95. If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#96. The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.
Orson Scott Card
#97. Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
Gail Collins
#98. God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.
Charles R. Swindoll
#99. T sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.
Bill Pronzini
#100. Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
William Lloyd Garrison
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