Popular Good Quotes
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| Quotes | Author |
| The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. | Edmund Burke |
| Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. | Dennis Prager |
| Have a very good reason for everything you do. | Laurence Olivier |
| If you don&’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one. | Cavett Robert |
| The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. | Samuel Johnson |
| What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise. | Barbara Jordan |
| Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. | Will Rogers |
| If you can&’t make it good, at least make it look good. | Bill Gates |
| It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. | Benjamin Franklin |
| When I&’m good, I&’m very good. But when I&’m bad I&’m better. | Mae West |
| I&’d rather be lucky than good. | Lefty Gomez |
| There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. | William Shakespeare |
| To be a good citizen, it&’s important to be able to put yourself in other people&’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible. | Eli Pariser |
| No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. | Bertolt Brecht |
| Don&’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. | John D. Rockefeller |
| A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. | Charles Spurgeon |
| Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls. | Desi Arnaz |
| Be sweet, be good, and honest always. | Emma Bunton |
| Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. | Voltaire |
| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. | Plato |
| I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Be not simply good – be good for something. | Henry David Thoreau |
| A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. | E. W. Howe |
| It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. | Oscar Wilde |
| A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. | Bernard Meltzer |
| Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. | Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. | Anne Frank |
| The good old days are now. | Tom Clancy |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| The good and the wise lead quiet lives. | Euripides |
| It&’s good to shut up sometimes. | Marcel Marceau |
| That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. | Ninon de L&’Enclos |
| The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. | Chanakya |
| Goodness is the only investment that never fails. | Henry David Thoreau |
| There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. | Christopher Morley |
| A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor&’s. | Richard Whately |
| If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. | Albert Einstein |
| A good beginning makes a good end. | Louis L&’Amour |
| Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. | Rollo May |
| Less is only more where more is no good. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. | Mark Twain |
| The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. | Oscar Wilde |
| The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. | Dalai Lama |
| They&’re only truly great who are truly good. | George Chapman |
| He who stops being better stops being good. | Oliver Cromwell |
| Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. | Booker T. Washington |
| Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. | Henry David Thoreau |
| The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. | Jesus Christ |
| Good enough never is. | Debbi Fields |
| I can live for two months on a good compliment. | Mark Twain |
| 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 |
| Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. | Josh Billings |
| A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. | Charles Evans Hughes |
| Better is the enemy of good. | Voltaire |
| Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. | Thornton Wilder |
| A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. | Wilson Mizner |
| Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| I&’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they&’re stones that don&’t matter. As long as you&’re breathing, it&’s never too late to do some good. | Maya Angelou |