Good Quotes

If with uncorrupted mind you feel good will for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a Noble One produces a mind of sympathy for all beings, an abundance of merit.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and virtuous.

Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

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.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.