Top 100 Quotes About Good Persons
#1. The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.
Rebecca Goldstein
#2. Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.
Peter Kreeft
#3. Difficulties are better for good persons and bad for bad persons ...
Wasif Ali Wasif
#4. Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.
Jay Park
#5. [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.
Anton Chekhov
#6. I just want to be as good a person as I can be.
Bonnie Raitt
#7. The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.
Pope Leo XII
#8. Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller
#9. Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
Napoleon Hill
#10. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham
#12. There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
Vincent De Paul
#13. As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
John Stuart Mill
#14. I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood
Poggio Bracciolini
#15. That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.
Ne-Yo
#16. One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
Maimonides
#18. If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James Audubon
#19. That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.
Rene Descartes
#20. To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. If you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
Dale Carnegie
#22. Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ...
Alfred Armand Montapert
#23. When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
John Webster
#24. Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Augustus Hare
#25. It's a good poem if I'm a different person when I'm finished reading it.
Brandon Stanton
#26. When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the
person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good
you can be.
Chin-Ning Chu
#27. There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.
Charles Spurgeon
#28. There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
Henry Ward Beecher
#29. The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.
Anthony Trollope
#30. Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?
Robert Nozick
#31. Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
Aristotle.
#32. According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
John Gerard
#33. The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Michel De Montaigne
#34. A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
#36. Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.
Stevie Smith
#37. If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
Umar
#38. As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive 'the good life' or 'doing well' to be the same thing as 'being happy.
Aristotle.
#39. Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!
Georgia Harkness
#40. These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.
David Rudisha
#42. A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.
Bruce Lee
#43. They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano Bruno
#44. May this colloquium be an inspiration to all who seek to support and strengthen the union of man and woman in marriage as a unique, natural, fundamental and beautiful good for persons, families, communities, and whole societies.
Pope Francis
#45. Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Augustus Hare
#46. Persons don't make their own faces, and it's no more my fault if mine is a good one than it is other people's fault if theirs is a bad one.
Charles Dickens
#47. It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.
Aldous Huxley
#48. The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.
Jostein Gaarder
#49. Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.
Mariane Pearl
#50. With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#51. The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.
George Herbert Palmer
#52. The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
Abu Nuaym
#53. Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it. A. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
#54. A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.
Edmund Burke
#55. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.
Linda Castillo
#57. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.
Benjamin Franklin
#58. Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
Robert Hugh Benson
#59. Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin
#60. All it takes is one good person to restore hope.
Pope Francis
#61. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#62. It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. Remember
Dale Carnegie
#65. As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that they do not view themselves as inevitably tied to the pursuit of the particular conception of the good and its final ends which they espouse at any given time.
John Rawls
#66. We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#67. Staines was not a terribly good judge of character. He loved to be enchanted, and so was very often drawn to persons whose manner was suggestive of tragedy, romance, or myth.
Eleanor Catton
#68. Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
Criss Jami
#69. Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results
the fragrance of celestial flowers
to the daily life of others.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#70. Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That
Plato
#71. Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.
Milton Friedman
#72. A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#73. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.
Martin Luther
#74. Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit ...
Stella Gibbons
#75. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
Paulo Coelho
#76. I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.
Melissa Joan Hart
#77. When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.
Donald Miller
#78. When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know
an authority good for nothing.
Augustus William Hare
#79. I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions ... Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
King James I
#80. I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.
Domhnall Gleeson
#81. As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson
#82. The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler
Jeremy Clarkson
#83. Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
Augustus William Hare
#84. It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
Henry Fielding
#85. You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
Shams Tabrizi
#86. By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general.
Neal Stephenson
#87. Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.
May Sarton
#88. Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?
Jim Cathcart
#89. The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
Earl Nightingale
#90. In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
P.T. Barnum
#91. I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
Aaron Eckhart
#92. The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.
Anuj
#93. In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H.L. Mencken
#94. You can stop anything but a person with a good attitude.
Richard Bandler
#95. Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore De Balzac
#96. One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
Fanny Fern
#97. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
#98. A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.
Doris Day
#99. The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.
Thomas Szasz
#100. I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
Wale
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