Top 100 Quotes About What Is Good
#1. You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument of feeling it. Through your vibrations you can make out what is good and what is bad.
Nirmala Srivastava
#2. If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
Oprah Winfrey
#3. When an individual develops his heaven nature, he shines like the sun. Such a person keeps conscious of, and clings to, what is good and great within himself.
Carol K. Anthony
#4. I don't care about what is good and what is evil, I care about what is true.
Richard Dawkins
#5. Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'
George W. Bush
#6. Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite.
Confucius
#7. Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
Sister Parish
#8. There is no story that is not true, [ ... ] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Chinua Achebe
#9. If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Ayn Rand
#10. On the other hand are the ungodly who want to have a full and secure belly. If anyone talks to them about faith and patience, they mock and despise Him and say, Can this fool tell us what is good? Yes, you be patient until a roast chicken flies into your mouth. Trust in that and you will starve!
Martin Luther
#11. Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#12. If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#13. The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
Oscar Wilde
#14. When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!
David Gray
#16. There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.
Laura San Giacomo
#17. Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
Epicurus
#18. Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.
Frank R. Stockton
#19. When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
George Eliot
#20. If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.
George Edward Moore
#21. Love is above wisdom, just as the Virgin is above the snake. For her everything is inspiration. She doesn't bother judging what is good and what evil.
Paulo Coelho
#23. What is good for the bad, and what is bad for the good.
Seiji Kaneko
#24. What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.
Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.
Michelle Franklin
#25. If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha
#26. Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
#27. A friend is someone who wishes what is good for the other.
John O'Donohue
#28. What appears is good; what is good appears.
Guy Debord
#29. The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.
Nigel Farage
#30. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee? but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
(Micah 6:8 ASV)
Micah
#31. The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
Ralph Marston
#32. The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger
#33. Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#34. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#35. Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease ... and throw himself into roils and labors.
Immanuel Kant
#36. Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato
#37. What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.
John McCain
#38. People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#39. 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
#40. You must give up your right to decide what is good and evil on your own terms. That is a hard pill to swallow - choosing to live only in me. To do that, you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness.
William Paul Young
#41. Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted.
Uthman Ibn Affan
#42. 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
#43. The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.
E. M. Forster
#44. 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C.S. Lewis
#45. True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
Baruch Spinoza
#46. In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter Tosh
#47. This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#48. As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
Kapil Dev
#49. The thesis of etatism that the members of the government and its assistants are more intelligent than the people, and that they know better what is good for the individual than he himself knows, is pure nonsense.
Ludwig Von Mises
#50. By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
Ian McEwan
#51. The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
Bert Hellinger
#52. 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 ...
#53. There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
William Bernbach
#54. I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Marvin Hamlisch
#55. To truly know what is good in life you must experience the bad as well.
Various
#56. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge
#58. We so easily convince ourselves that what is good for me is also good for others.
Brent Weeks
#59. Restraints upon our natural inclinations, which left to themselves do not automatically lead us to do what is good for us and often indeed lead us to evil, are not only necessary; they are the indispensable condition of civilized existence.
Theodore Dalrymple
#60. Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.
Plato
#61. What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.
Joe Miller
#63. Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
Michel Foucault
#65. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
Matthew Kelly
#66. It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
Bob Ehrlich
#67. One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object.
Paulo Coelho
#68. It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
Umberto Eco
#69. The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.
Sergei Lavrov
#70. By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#71. Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
Confucius
#72. Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?
Albert Einstein
#73. Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball
#74. If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
Salman Rushdie
#75. Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.
Satish Kumar
#76. Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.
Clarence Thomas
#77. Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. The modern man says, "Let us leave all these arbitrary standards and embrace liberty." This is, logically rendered, "Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.
G.K. Chesterton
#79. Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
Rene Redzepi
#80. Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
Philip Massinger
#81. Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.
Vivienne Westwood
#82. I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.
Bernhard Schlink
#83. Mankind, He has told you what is good u and what it is the Lord requires of you: v to act justly, w to love faithfulness, x and to walk humbly with your God. y
Anonymous
#84. Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
Wilbur Smith
#85. I do not believe in goodness in the world anymore. What is good either dies or is killed.
Scott Frost
#86. Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
Immanuel Kant
#87. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
#88. Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
#89. And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
Robert M. Pirsig
#90. Our prayers must be in accordance with [God's] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.
Billy Graham
#91. I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.
Eric Davis
#92. The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
Natasha Leggero
#94. In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The
Jean Plaidy
#95. We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue
and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
Euripides
#96. There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#97. What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
Deborah Norville
#98. As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.
Lou Reed
#99. Good, bad, they're just words. Who's to decide what is good or bad? In the end, only the consequences matter.
Denise Grover Swank
