Good Quotes

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Francis Bacon

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Mark Twain

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Plato

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Carl Sagan

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

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

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

John Green

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Mahatma Gandhi

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.

Paulo Coelho

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Michael Jackson

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

James Young