Good Quotes

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my country.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles & Doctrines of Free Masonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. If it has been a Cloak to promote improper or nefarious objects, it is a melancholly proof that in unworthy hands, the best institutions may be made use of to promote the worst designs.

Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.

The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

One of my predecessors is said to have observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback - he could not very well call the next play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good way to run a football team, but in these days it is no way to run a government.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

For safe and responsible use of technology, balance regulation is needed. We want such global digital governance in which sovereignty and integrity remain intact. Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) should be a bridge and not a barrier. For global good, India is ready to share its DPI. For India, One Earth, One Family, One Future is a commitment.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

People's participation is the essence of good governance.

Good days are upon us.