| Author |
Quotes |
| Akhenaton | The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. |
| Aristotle | It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. |
| Bible | And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | Can one desire too much of a good thing? |
| Christopher Dawson | As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. |
| Edmund Burke | The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
| Edwin Arnold | What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well. |
| Epictetus | If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. |
| Epitaph | For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can. |
| George Crabbe | Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. |
| George Linnaeus Banks | For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. |
| George Linnaeus Banks | Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. |
| George Orwell | On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. |
| Julia C R Dorr | Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! |
| Marcus Aurelius | Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. |
| Michel de Montaigne | There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. |
| Oscar Wilde | If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. |
| Robert Blair | The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between. |
| Rupert Brooke | One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity. |
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