Good Quotes

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.

Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Forests require many years to mature; consequently the long point of view is necessary if the forests are to be maintained for the good of our country.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

I may say that I 'got along fine' with Marshal Stalin. He is a man who combines a tremendous, relentless determination with a stalwart good humor. I believe he is truly representative of the heart and soul of Russia.