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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘good’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” -Edith Wharton
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“In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.” -Gilbert Parker
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“I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.” -Lana Turner
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“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.” -M. Scott Peck
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“People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell.” -Michael Jackson
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“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” -Groucho Marx
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“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.” -Bob Dylan
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“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.” -Epictetus
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“Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.” -Roy Rogers
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“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.” -Nelson Mandela
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“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” -John A. Simone, Sr.
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers
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“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” -Garrison Keillor
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“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.” -Henry Ford
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“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“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
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“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“This is what customers pay us for – to sweat all these details so it’s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We’re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers, but it’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen…
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“I’ve always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry
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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.” -A. J. McLean
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“After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.” -William R. Alger
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“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.” -Frida Kahlo
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“A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.” -Xun Zi
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“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.” -Ken Kesey
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“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.” -George Washington
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“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” -Milton Friedman
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“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.” -Bill Cosby
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“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.” -Albert Camus
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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.” -Robert E. Lee
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“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James A. Baldwin
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“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” -Carl Sagan
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“Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.” -Ayn Rand
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“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert
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“It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping…
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“Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” -Desmond Tutu
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“I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.” -Marty Robbins
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“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.” -Socrates
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“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.” -Zig Ziglar
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“I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.” -Marcus Garvey
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.” -Cat Stevens
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“I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” -Grandma Moses
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“Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.” -Grantland Rice
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“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.” -Kurt Cobain
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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Here’s the good news. If I realize that I’m insane, then I’m okay with it. I’m not dangerous insane.” -Charlie Sheen
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“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.” -George Carlin
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“If you’re married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife ‘I love her’ the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that’s how I feel about my relationship…
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“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
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“A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Saint Basil
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“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.” -Aristotle
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“I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” -Yogi Berra
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“It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.” -Will Smith
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“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -Grenville Kleiser
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“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’” -Lao Tzu
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“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” -Toni Morrison
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“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” -J. P. Morgan
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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“Necessity never made a good bargain.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.” -Angelina Jolie
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“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.” -Michael Jordan
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“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” -Honore de Balzac
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“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.” -Confucius
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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“It doesn’t do good to open doors for someone who doesn’t have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.” -Ronald Reagan
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“I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.” -Yannick Noah
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” -William Arthur Ward
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“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” -Alan Cohen
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“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.” -William Shakespeare
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“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There’s that moment every morning…
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“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.” -Gillian Anderson
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“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.” -Muhammad Ali
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“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” -Scott Alexander
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“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” -George S. Patton
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“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.” -Jim Morrison
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“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.” -Mark Twain
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” -Josh Billings
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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” -Winston Churchill
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“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” -David Rockefeller
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“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.” -Dalai Lama
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“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.” -Eileen Caddy
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“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” -Hugh Sidey
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“If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” -Maya Angelou
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“Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.” -John C. Maxwell
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“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.” -Buddha
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” -Helen Keller
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“I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.” -Sandra Bullock
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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C. S. Lewis
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“All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.” -Tupac Shakur
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“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.” -Albert Einstein
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“I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” -Godfrey Winn
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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat
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“I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” -Bob Marley
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“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.” -Charles Evans Hughes
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“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.” -John Bunyan
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“They’re only truly great who are truly good.” -George Chapman
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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” -Margaret Walker
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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.” -Washington Irving
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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Less is only more where more is no good.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.” -Warren G. Bennis
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“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.” -Dan Quayle
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“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.” -Ninon de L’Enclos
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“Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.” -David Ogilvy
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -E. W. Howe
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“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” -Bill Gates
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“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” -Booker T. Washington
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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.” -Richard Whately
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“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” -Mother Teresa
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