Good Quotes

Quotes About Good

• ✔ Sweaty? ✔ Sore? ✔ Tired? Good. It's working. 
• ...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none . Aristotle
• A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. 
• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela
• A good laugh is sunshine in a house. William Makepeace Thackeray
• A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold Glasow
• A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. George S. Patton
• A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. Bendixline 
• A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
• Always do stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. 
• Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. 
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. Benjamin Franklin
• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. 
• Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth His kindness. And He’s a good judge of character. 
• Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders. F. W. Faber
• By planting seeds of peace deep in the heart, You create a garden of good wishes. unknown
• By seeing the defects of others you will become tired. By seeing only what is good you will feel light. unknown
• Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
• Do all the good you can, to as many people as you can, as often as you can. 
• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet
• Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things. Buster Rothman
• Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; Try to use ordinary situations. Jean Paul Richter
• Don’t jump to conclusions, there may be a perfectly good explanation for what you just saw. Proverbs 25:8
• Don't fear change. You may lose something good, but you may also gain something great. 
• Don't give 'til it hurts - give 'til it feels good. 
• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill... Elsa Schiaparelli
• Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
• Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Voltaire
• Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. Thomas à Kempis
• Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo. Dr. Sara Jordan
• Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Hate less, love more and all good things are yours. unknown
• Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. Mark Twain
• Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness, bone-deep, non-hypocritical integrity. Charles Swindoll
• Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you'll start believing in it. Jesse Owens
• For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. Audrey Hepburn
• Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. Psalm 118:29
• GOD can turn a MESS into a MESSage, a TEST into a TESTimony, a TRIal into a TRIumph, a VICTim into a VICTory. GOD is GOOD... all the time. 
• God smiles when we love him supremely. Rick Warren Look around the habitable world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. John Dryden 
• Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven. Victor Hugo
• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and really impossible to forget. 
• Good has two meanings: it means both that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. Aristotle
• Good health and a loving family Equates to true wealth. Christopher Ammirati 
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover
• Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Michael Burke
• Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan. Graffitti
• Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman. Peter Mayle (1939-) British Author and Writer
• Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Clarence Thomas
• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde
• Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up. 
• Good things happen to those who hustle. Anais Nin
• Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. Willard Marriott
• Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. Tim Duncan
• Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy, Marshall Field 
• He who is outside the door has already got a good part of his journey behind him. Dutch proverb
• He who stops being better stops being good. Oliver Cromwell 
• He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. Confucius
• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the waterpots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves. Elisabeth Elliot
• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi
• How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world. Shakespeare
• I am better than I was yesterday, but not as good as I will be tomorrow ✔ 
• I believe that good things come to those who work. Wilt Chamberlain
• I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." Eleanor Roosevelt
• I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a good one Woody Paige
• I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. Charles Barkley
• I saw about a peck of counterfeit dollars once. Did I go to the window and throw away all my good dollars? No! Yet you reject Christianity because there are hypocrites, or counterfeit Christians. William E. Biederwolf
• I think my paranoid schizophrenia has improved my ability to be a good ruler of my fellow Aztec citizens. Jennifer Piatak
• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Harold S. Kushner
• I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin
• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. Johannes Eckhart
• If you are good, be better. 
• If you can't sing good, sing LOUD. 
• If you consider what a good life will bring to yourself and what joy it will give others, I think you will be more concerned about your spiritual progress. Thomas Kempis
• If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
• If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
• If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. 
• In every age the "good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984), reporter, New York Times drama critic 
• In heaven we won't be encumbered by all the material goods that clutter our lives here on earth. Whatever their size, our heavenly homes will be places of love set in neighborhoods where the peace is never interrupted by police or ambulance sirens, storm warnings, or blaring security alarms. How wonderful it is to picture the happy life we'll know for all eternity. How comforting it is to know we'll share it with our friends and loved ones who are waiting for us there. Barbara Johnson (He's Gonna Toot)
• In helping others, we shall help ourselves, For whatever good we give out completes the circle And comes back to us. Flora Edwards 
• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. Mortimer J. Adler
• In the final analysis, there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. Clare Booth Luce
• It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula Le Guin
• It isn't hard to be good from time to time. What's tough is being good every day. Willie Mays
• It makes you look good when you avoid a fight only fools love to quarrel. Proverbs 20:3
• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. Madeleine L'Engle
• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain
• It's good to be back in New York but the crime situation has gotten bad. When I was getting off the plane the pilot was putting the 'club' on the steering wheel. John Mendoza
• It's good to be clever, but not to show it Woody Paige
• It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel. Orna Ross
• It's good to have self-confidence. It's just nice to have a reason for it. 
• Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them. Mark Potter
• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. Marianne Williamson
• Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. Marianne Williamson
• Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so thou shalt live jollily, for a good conscience is a continual Christmas. Benjamin Franklin
• Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds & praise your Father in heaven. Matt 5:16
• Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings
• Life is about laughing & living in good & bad times. Getting through whatever comes our way & looking back with a smile. 
• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge
• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. John Milton
• Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. Knute Rockne
• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. Emily Post
• Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities. John Richelsen
• My connection to God allows me to create all the good in my live. 
• My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. Phyllis Diller
• My momma told me she had eyes in the back of her head. Good thing she didn't also have a mouth there because it would be really hard to floss those back molars. Paul Paternoster
• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. Seneca
• Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries, & laugh a lot, it's good for you! Paula Radcliffe
• No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we can do good. Chester A. Pennington
• No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop
• No matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. Henry Bloch
• No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval. Minot Simons
• Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. Anthony Trollope
• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. George Washington (1732-1799) U.S. President
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. Francesco Guicciardini
• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Tom Blandi
• Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same. Helen Grace
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
• Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of "God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace." Jerry Bridges
• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. Zig Ziglar
• Positive thoughts are like good software that helps us to perform to the best of our abilities. unknown
• Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! - letter to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777 John Adams (1735-1826) Second U.S. President
• Power is the ability to do good things for others. Brooke Astor
• Remain healthy by maintaining a simple diet of pure feelings, good wishes and positive thoughts. 
• Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. Dwight L. Moody
• Sometimes it is not good enough to do your best; you have to do what's required. Winston Churchill
• Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand Hayley Williams
• Sorry but I'm ridiculously good Woody Paige
• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. Evan Esar
• Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. Aristotle 
• That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth
• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling
• The bonds of matrimony are a good investment, but only when the interest is kept up. 
• The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good spit it out. 
• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. St. Augustine
• The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach
• The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. Thomas Morell
• The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. H. T. Leslie
• The good and the wise lead quiet lives. Euripides, 484 - 406 BC
• The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales. John R. W. Stott
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli
• The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people. Tolstoy
• The line between good and evil is never simply between 'us' and 'them.' The line between good and evil runs through each one of us. A. Solzhenitsyn (via N.T. Wright).
• The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good. Polish Proverb
• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
• The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play. Bill Russell
• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
• The people's good is the highest law. Cicero
• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns (1896-1996), US actor & comedian 
• The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. Duguet
• The streets of hell are paved with good intentions. Mark Twain
• The test of your leadership isn't what happens when you are there, but when you are not there. "It's for your good I'm going away" Jesus
• The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers
• The woman who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right -- but she is more often left. Baltimore Sun
• The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured. William Makepeace Thackeray
• There are no more hours in a bad day than in a good one! Unknown
• There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide. John Stott 
• There is no joy the world can give like that which comes from joining good [people] in common purpose. Jim Tressel
• There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation, create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today. Handley C. G. Moule
• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. 
• There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. 
• There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending, 
• There's nothing like a good crisis to increase my energy and remind me how much I need God. Anne Christian Buchanan 
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Dr. Seuss
• Too many couples marry for better or for worse, but not for good. 
• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandino
• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers
• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~ Ellen Goodman 
• We know nothing of tomorrow, Our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Mother Teresa
• We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• What a good thing Adam had; when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain
• What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful. Unknown
• Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' Steven Wright 
• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn
• When you are in deep water, it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut. St. Louis Tribune
• While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here. John Selden
• Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. Arabic Proverb 
• You can be as good as the best of them, or as bad as the worst, so don’t test me. Biggie Smalls (Get Money Rmx)
• You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them. Thomas à Kempis
• You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work. Thomas Dreier
• You cannot go on being a good egg forever. You must either hatch or rot. C. S. Lewis
• You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. William Rotsler
• You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. Jerry West
• Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson
• You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. Lou Holtz

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Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Ephesians 4:11 and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

Mark 16:15 and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

Romans 1:16 for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Romans 12:21 ESV Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Isaiah 5:20 ESV Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Matthew 19:17 ESV And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

Mark 10:17-22 ESV And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ...

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