Good Quotes
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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