Quotes about Good
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
— Charles Dickens
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
— William James
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
— William Wordsworth
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
— CS Lewis
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
— Samuel Johnson
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The Gospel is 'Good News', not 'Good History', because when it's preached, it happens.
— Reinhard Bonnke
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
— CS Lewis
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
— Anonymous