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Quotes By subject - Starting with G - Good
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There are 42 quotes for the subject Good
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No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Author: Plato
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Author: Euripides
Source: Temenidae
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
Author: Lao Tzu
Source: The Way of Lao-tzu
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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A Native American Elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "the one I feed the most."
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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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?"
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Author: Euripides
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Ajax
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The good befriend themselves.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Oedipus at Colonus
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Author: Homer
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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Author: Plato
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