Good Quotes

My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and you’re not my concern,” he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, I’m sure Vaughn would love for his son to abandon me, so that Vaughn can swoop in and reclaim me the second I’m alone. But Linden adds, “I told him that wouldn’t be a good idea either.

~ Lauren Destefano

Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.

~ J.adam Snyder

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

~ Aristotle

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

~ Elizabeth Ii

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

~ Albert Einstein

My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.

~ Richard D. Kahlenberg

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.

~ Daniel Defoe

They came to realize that, even if evil and injustice seemed to win at some point, God would still be the ultimate victor. In the end good and justice would prevail forever.

~ Therese May

If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth

~ Sunday Adelaja

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.

~ Steven Magee

Avoid working in windowless environments for good health.

~ Steven Magee

A sick person is Allah’s guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ‘ al hamdulillah’, praise be to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.

~ Kristiane Backer

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

~ Oscar Wilde

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

~ J.k. Rowling

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

~ Shane Claiborne

The best is the enemy of good.

~ Voltaire

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

~ Steven Moffat

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

~ Colleen Hoover

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

~ Diane Setterfield

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

~ Anonymous

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

~ Donna Tartt

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

~ Harvey Dent

He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good. (James Frey, pg.38)

~ James Frey

A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue.

~ Thea Devine

Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

~ Lauren Oliver

And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

~ Alexandre Dumas

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

~ Terry Pratchett

Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.

~ Mad-D

A smart model is a good model.

~ Tyra Banks

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

~ C.s. Lewis

There isn’t a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there’s no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all.All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up.All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process.It’s no good getting worked up about stuff – it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.

~ Jay Woodman

I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the daywithout hurting other people, then you are a good person...

~ Kaje Harper

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

~ Christian D. Larson

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

~ Woody Allen

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

~ Oscar Wilde

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

~ Sam Harris