Good Quotes

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al.

~ Veronica Roth

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

~ Matthew Quick

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

~ Amit Abraham

If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good…

~ Geoffrey Wood

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

~ Christian D. Larson

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention.Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

~ Will Advise

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

~ Susan Andersen

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

~ Phoebe Stone

Cling to the good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not forget to be good to yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

~ Clementine Von Radics

Some human beings in their craftiness thought they can pretend to be good when they are actually bad.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.

~ Alexandra Sirowy

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.

~ John Fowles

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

~ Isobelle Carmody

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Screw chocolate. A good steak is where it’s at.

~ A.d. Posey

A good preview makes you can’t wait to see the whole movie.

~ A.d. Posey

When we do good—even when others are doing wrong—God will bless us.

~ Billy Graham

Grace is as good as gold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace is root of a good life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can good deed by God’s grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is grace for every good action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

~ Bill Courtney

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.

~ John Connolly

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to good; more wonderfulThan that which by creation first brought forthLight out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,Whether I should repent me now of sinBy me done, and occasioned; or rejoiceMuch more, that much more good thereof shall spring;To God more glory, more good-will to menFrom God, and over wrath grace shall abound.

~ John Milton

In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil and a preponderance of good, both crying that somehow it was meant to be. Then nothing, only the cold apathy of deepest space.

~ Marcha A. Fox

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

~ Gregory Maguire

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-She's foul enough to be one...Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

~ J.k. Rowling

Who are you then? I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free.Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.

~ C.s. Lewis

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.

~ Terry Pratchett

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

~ Michel Houellebecq