good quotes

“A good deed never goes unpunished.”

“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.”

— Charles Dickens

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”

“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”

“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Great and good are seldom the same man. ”

— Winston Churchill

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

— Winston Churchill

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”

“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”

“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

— Sigmund Freud

“I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”

— Sigmund Freud

“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.”

— John Barrymore

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

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