Top 100 The Greater Good Quotes
#1. There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?
Jodi Picoult
#2. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon
#4. Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
Zach Braff
#5. If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.
Rushworth M Kidder
#6. Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.
Douglas B. Reeves
#7. Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war!
J.K. Rowling
#8. It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
Hunter S. Thompson
#9. You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.
Srikumar Rao
#10. We must understand that our talents and our wealth are only loaned to us, in trusteeship, to use toward the greater good.
Christopher Benninger
#11. We all have our duties here. We all suffer. We all endure our setbacks for the greater good of mankind.
Markus Zusak
#12. We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good - for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.
Greg Egan
#13. 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
#14. It is a prerequisite, then, for someone to trust the culture in which they work to share the values and beliefs of that culture. Without it, that employee, for example, is simply a bad fit and likely to work only for self-gain without consideration for the greater good.
Simon Sinek
#15. I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
Charles B. Rangel
#16. What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult
#17. Frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.
Richard J. Foster
#18. Sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good!
J.K. Rowling
#19. Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.
Amy Dickinson
#20. Collective responsibility, a sense of the greater good versus just one's own good, and a strong set of collective values are imperative for improving society. These are the aims of all these pieces about our society.
Chetan Bhagat
#21. Money, fame, class, and titles are just symbols, or opportunities, for making a difference. Real power means enhancing the greater good, and your feelings of power will direct you to the exact way you are best equipped to do this.
Dacher Keltner
#22. A compassionate way of life rooted in oneness and connectivity not only impacts your greater good, but it resonates out into the world, positively impacting the greater good for all.
Amy Miller
#23. We should never judge anyone; a 'wicked' action which we may see as 'evil', may be necessary for the greater good. Where would the story of Christ be without Judas? His actions were ultimately good; a part of the plan.
Robert S. Jepson Jr.
#24. I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.
Karina Bliss
#25. When we have specific interests or purposes, can we leverage this tsunami of multimedia to our own individual aims and for the greater good of all?
Mark T. Maybury
#26. People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.
Mike Krzyzewski
#27. Do unto others as you'd have KARMA do unto you! Stop thinking in terms of "What's in it for me?" and more in terms of "What's in it for the greater good?"!
Tanya Masse
#28. Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.
Andrea Riseborough
#29. Repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good - perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.
Terry Brooks
#31. Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.
Derrick A. Bell
#32. The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community
Tony Blair
#33. The only life you have the right to sacrifice for the greater good is your own.
Brent Weeks
#34. Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
Desmond Tutu
#35. Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.
Tom Riley
#36. Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.
Don Winslow
#37. It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Tom Hiddleston
#38. Unbridled truth often gets sacrificed on the altar of the greater good.
Robert J. Crane
#39. We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.'
Michael Franti
#40. Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...
Jacques Tardi
#41. Take a stand. Be disruptive for the greater good of your company. Make a difference to other's people's lives.
Timi Nadela
#42. To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
#43. The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
Abigail Disney
#44. I took comfort in doing without because I knew it was all for the greater good. We all made great sacrifices, none more so than those boys who lost their lives. Tragedy was part of our daily routine. But through it all, I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
Megan McCafferty
#45. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them.
Brandon Mull
#46. The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.
Alexander Hamilton
#47. The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.
Joe Hill
#48. We must let our every act be out of love, and for the greater good of all.
Bryant McGill
#49. I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
James McGreevey
#50. People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Chris Hemsworth
#51. For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
Johnny Vegas
#52. '24' is not an anti-government show, really. We've always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, '24' is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#53. He died as he lived: working always for the greater good and, to his last hour, as willing to stretch out a hand to a small boy with dragon pox as he was on the day that I met him.
J.K. Rowling
#54. I personally find the whole destiny thing to be overrated. It rarely ends well and involves extensive death and sacrifice for the greater good. None of which is really my thing.
Rhonda Sermon
#55. Maybe greatness isn't about being immortal, or glorious, or popular - it's about choosing to fight for the greater good of the world, even when the world's turned its back on you.
Chris Colfer
#56. I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
Rachel Griffiths
#57. How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?
Amy Engel
#58. We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good."
"The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.
Bill Willingham
#60. Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
Jane Siberry
#61. The Order of the Titans had agreed with his assessment. This generation, the Order would be successful where previous generations had failed, because this time they would steal mankind's inspiration. They would kill the muses for the greater good ...
For the good of mankind.
Lisa Kessler
#62. You make your decisions for the greater good.
But I don't know a thing about what it takes to attack an investigator or the laws of the ghoul world either. That's why I want to see it for myself before I decide what I'm going to do!
Sui Ishida
#63. Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.
Mariane Pearl
#64. As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.
Jill Scott
#65. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#66. Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves.
Richard Beckham II
#67. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.
Nancy B. Brewer
#70. I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#71. Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.
Greg Brown
#72. We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#73. We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.
Kevin B. Rollins
#74. You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.
Richard Trumka
#75. Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
Sarah J. Maas
#76. When some tech or design issues comes up, it annoys me but I recognize that tech and design are part of being a professional writer, so I embrace the suck for the greater good.
Mike Cernovich
#77. For the greater good." "That has been the excuse of tyrants throughout all time.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
Linus Pauling
#79. Leadership always benefits the greater good.
Mark Sanborn
#80. Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.
Joanne Guidoccio
#81. When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.
Simon R. Green
#82. The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.
Rachel Vincent
#83. It was then that Teddy realised that they were not so much warriors as sacrifices for the greater good. Birds thrown against a wall, in the hope that eventually, if there were enough birds, they would break that wall.
Kate Atkinson
#84. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.
Kathleen Kent
#85. 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
#86. compliance, compliance begets tolerance, and tolerance brings peace." He flicks his ferret-like gaze across them all. "Disorder is unacceptable. The greater good depends upon all of you,
Joe Hart
#87. My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.
Oprah Winfrey
#88. As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.
Jason Stearns
#89. You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so. You didn't fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage.
Amish Tripathi
#90. I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#91. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.
Yann Martel
#92. TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.
Matt Ridley
#93. Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good.
Emerson Hough
#94. Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
Will.i.am
#95. Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet
#96. To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.
Corliss Lamont
#97. The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.
Barack Obama
#98. When the chips are down, you are given
the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that's how you roll.
Jessica Lave
#99. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#100. The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
Charles Dickens
