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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson 
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
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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The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
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
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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