Good Quotes

Our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.

~ Boethius

The supreme good and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

~ Josef Pieper

Think good for yourself ,good will follow you.when you think good for others ,happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.

~ Irrfan Ishaq

Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s happiness could hurt many others.

~ Zaman Ali

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

~ Marie Lu

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

~ Melina Marchetta

Here's another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn't anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me, then you’re the best part.And if you're separate from me, then you are my destination.But I’ve become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart.

~ Kamand Kojouri

When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”“We all felt it,” Nick said.“You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.“What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?”Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.”“But you do think that something changed. . . .”“I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.”“What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?

~ Neal Shusterman

The corpse opened his eyes.

~ Donato Carrisi

If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we'd all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

During these hard times in the world we should always remember to keep our families and friends close.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding..

~ Hyrum Yeakley

In order for evil to go down, the good had to fight, suffer and die. We won, but only after suffering a lot of pain and I’m sure many have had second thoughts. Despite everything, we had new hope after the battle. We cleared the agitation. We were free. The same goes for this war. The good on both sides needs to survive and the bad needs to wither away.

~ Melita Tessy

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

~ Marie Lu

O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don’t pluck another feather,this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly,we are no more than human.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The evil that men do lives after them,The good is oft interred with their bones.

~ William Shakespeare

During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.

~ T.f. Hodge

Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.

~ T.f. Hodge

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

~ Carl R White

Good and Bad are like God and Devil. It's up to you, who do you want to summon.

~ Mohith Agadi

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

~ Amit Kalantri

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

~ Amit Kalantri

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Whoever knows God, depart from evil.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat of meaninglessness away. We believe because we crave to be seen, to be known, to be understood. We believe because that is the only thing we can do. If there is no one to judge us - to tell us that we are good, and that if we are bad, we can be redeemed - why bother living at all? Why bother being good at all? If there is no one to look after us, and we are truly alone in this universe, what purpose do we have? We have nothing but the present moment, and only temporariness.

~ Tarun Betala

Is there any good works without grace?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

We don’t find Godin temples and cathedrals.We don’t find Himby standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a pew.God appears when welove someone other than ourselves.And we continue to feel His presence when we do good for others.Because God is not foundin mosques and synagogues.He resides in ourhearts.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

~ Alice Walker

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

~ Alasdair Gray

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

~ Robert Bloch

Every good gift comes from God.

~ Lailah Gifty

I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil in the end, fantasy and fate. My life is that of wondrous enchantment, a place of endless possibilities and dreams, where inspiration is found in the oddest of places. I aspire to inspire, and someday I will change the world

~ Andrew Kendall

We can do no good, without God's grace

~ Lailah Gifty Akita