c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the daywithout hurting other people, then you are a good person...
— Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover
When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
— Christian D. Larson
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
— Woody Allen, Side Effects
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Fairy Tales
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful
— Stephen King
Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.
— kyo
Have I said anything I started out to say about being good? God, I don’t know. A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
— Ray Bradbury
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
— William Hutton
Pass down the good that I do unto you when you are done with it
— Amit Abraham
A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.
— Baruch Spinoza
I have one head that wants to be good,And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up,One of my heads is sad.
— John Ciardi, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
Nobody me without my enemy.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Being reliable is something. Being good.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In the book, hummin bins made castles, and towers up to the sky. They tamed the animals and took care of them. And hummin bins helped each other. They were always good."When I was done, Ma asked, 'Delly, what are hummin bins?' 'They're like people, but better,' I said. Then I told her, 'When I grow up, I'm going to live with the hummin bins,' and she smiled."But Galveston grabbed the book, 'Let me see that,' she said, and started laughing. 'This says human beings. There's no such things as hummin bins.'"'Ma, is it true?' I asked, and she nodded. 'How come you didn't tell me?' I cried."'I liked the hummin bins better, too,' she said." ..."RB's right, Ferris Boyd. You are a hummin bin." Her eyeballs were wet, like they were swimming.It was quiet, then, till RB's soft cloud voice said, "You're a hummin bin, too, Delly.
— Katherine Hannigan, True
It is not that one is good
—  one is happy.
The good may lose
—  the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all
— Johnny Depp
A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.
— Paula Fox
Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Without knowing every single detail in a man’s life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.
— Alain de Botton
I did not want to leave her, but this was it, this is what life is, you have to pay for everything that has happened to you. Whether good or bad you have to pay for it, it would be anything, or something or someone you love.
— Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
— William Saroyan, Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever
The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.
— David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself
The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life. Even in the sphere of external possessions there are goods which inherently demand, if they are to be truly ours, far more of us than mere acquisition. "'My garden,' the rich man said; his gardener smiled.
— Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?
— Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Spread the good and it will return to you. Spread the bad and it will return to you. Choice is yours what you want to receive.
— Ambreen Ali
i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad 
— Sanchez Raymundo
His eyes close, and he draws a long breath. When they open again, they’re colder than ever. “And that’s where you’d be disappointed, Lou.There is no good to be found in Death.
— T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
The truth hurts, my man, but it's a good pain.
— Joshua David Bellin, Freefall
The good is the brother of the true
—  it will help its brother.
The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.
— Stephen King, The Mist
Good influences are positive, and they see the good in even bad situations.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If better were within, better would come out.
— J.R. Rim
Calm sailing doesn't come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A clone may be a good copy, but you are the real thing!
— Anthony T. Hincks
Sometimes you need to do something bad to do something good.I guess that's the irony of life.
— Anthony T. Hincks
But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.“She still works pretty good.” Deire maintained. “Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that’s just a dodgy plasma injector.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
Whatever you practice, good or bad, you become good at it!
— Harrish Sairaman
Sometimes I think people like you are the strongest of us all. The kind of person who can find beauty in anything. Who chooses to believe in love before hate. Who doesn’t just hope for happy endings, but has what it takes to create the happy ending. It’s so easy to be angry, to hate, to see the worst in a situation. But to actively choose to see the best? That’s where all the courage is.
— T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
Learn to feel good and you will realize that your life becomes better…
— Latika Teotia
When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I’m convinced that there is nothing ​truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower.
— Kay Whitley, Out Loud: A collection of spoken word poetry
That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Letters to His Children
Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in.
— Steven Magee
Every good deed is acceptable goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be good to yourself. You deserve goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Goodness is good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Cling to good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Things don’t only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
I don't count my blessings,because just being alive is good enough for me.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A good intention feeds no one.
— Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.
— Joseph Laycock, Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops-- which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depths of desolation, never to despair.
— Henry John Newman
Shape your behavior and think about on how to make a good impression to others.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.
— Jeffrey Fry
Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
Humanity is about raising up each other for good.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
God created you for His higher purpose and for your better good
— Sunday Adelaja
Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998.
— Deyth Banger
Good players want to be coached. Great players want to be told the truth.
— Doc Rivers
Choose something which is better and from which you can learn something, ... here I am going to give few examples.CSI:Miami - Good ChoiceDexter - Another Good CHoiceBreaking Bad - Another Good ChoicePerson Of Interest - Another Good Choice
— Deyth Banger
It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.
— Jeffrey Fry
If you wish to good ways, study the word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.
— Kate McGahan
God can turn everything that seems negative in our life around and make it positive, for our good
— Sunday Adelaja
When God begins his good works it is difficult to hold on, if you are in a passive position
— Sunday Adelaja
When you face tests and persecution don’t complain, but remember that everything works together for good for those who love God
— Sunday Adelaja
Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
The gospel of becoming a good believer limits the pursuit of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe.
— Barack Obama
The good and the beautiful is not forgotten
—  it lives in legend and in song.
It's not about being good. It's about being brave.
— Lana M. H. Wilder
In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.
— Christina Engela, Innocent Minds
Better things will follow you when you do good things to others.
— Gift Gugu Mona
I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
And when you see those good things—and I promise you, there are so many good things—they’re going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss always seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it. If you stick it out, it’s all going to feel worth it in the end. Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they’ll all feel worth it when you’re staring light in the face.
— Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World
Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!
— Steven Magee
The greater good has been defined as "the ends justify the means." The common good says that "liberty resides in the means.
— R. A. Delmonico
Sometimes bad things that come in life aren’t necessarily bad things
—  they can be motivators to do more.
I want my mom,” a little boy cried out suddenly.Every voice fell silent. The boy had said what they were all feeling.Caine hopped down from the car and went to the boy. He knelt down and took the boy’s hands in his own. He asked the boy’s name, and reintroduced himself. “We all want our parents back,” he said gently, but loudly enough to be overheard clearly by those nearest. “We all want that. And I believe that will happen. I believe we will see all our moms and dads, and older brothers and sisters, and even our teachers again. I believe that. Do you believe it, too?”“Yes.” The little boy sobbed.Caine wrapped him in a hug and said, “Be strong. Be your mommy’s strong little boy.”“He’s good,” Astrid said. “He’s beyond good.”Then Caine stood up. People had formed a circle around him, close but respectful. “We all have to be strong. We all have to get through this. If we work together to choose good leaders and do the right thing, we will make it.”The entire crowd of kids seemed to stand a little taller. There were determined looks on faces that had been weary and frightened.Sam was mesmerized by the performance. In just a few minutes’ time, Caine had infused hope into a very frightened, dispirited bunch of kids.Astrid seemed mesmerized too, though Sam thought he detected the cool glint of skepticism in her eyes.Sam was skeptical himself. He distrusted rehearsed displays. He distrusted charm. But it was hard not to think that Caine was at least trying to reach out to the Perdido Beach kids. It was hard not to believe in him, at least a little. And if Caine really did have a plan, wouldn’t that be a good thing? No one else seemed to have a clue.
— Michael Grant, Gone
The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress—that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what.
— G.K. Chesterton
Socrates: (...)They should not pit themselves against the will of the Gods in thought or deed. Here lies the true path of virtue and happiness. The other way is arrogance, pride and hubris. It ends in tragedy, as we all well know from the Theatre.Hermogenes: Thank you Socrates. Does this also mean that what the Gods will is always virtuous and must be the Good?Socrates: Yes. There is no other basis for the Good.
— Alan Jacobs "Socrates Without Tears"
I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later)
— Deyth Banger
You are a good counter...T-Man (......You used the F word 31 times.......)
— Deyth Banger
Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.
— John Connolly, The Whisperers
...the literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the belief that if a literary work is "serious," it must bore people to death; and if it is "entertaining," it must not communicate anything of importance. (Which means that "the good" has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low-grade.)
— Ayn Rand, The Night of January 16th
So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Did you just tease me with more Jim Sterling?" Mandi Castle; read her book; Dear Stephanie.
— Mandi Castle, Dear Stephanie
It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
At times, talent is gifted! But mostly, it comes with good practice.
— Somya Kedia
There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really
— Samantha Hunt, Mr. Splitfoot
I recognized your good character.Because of my silence, Petra HermansH. Koper
— Petra Hermans
Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
Prosbly is for good that you can't understand me.
— Deyth Banger
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
— Steve Martin
Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
Only God is good.""We can make good works,We can be called good folksWe can do good,but we cannot be good.
— Mac Canoza
Tomorrow isn't better than today ~ yet.
— Robert Marcin
Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.
— Gugu Mona
But that's life, I suppose. You're born good, and over time it gets drilled out of you. Doesn't matter how much good you do in the world, you'll always end up hurt by others, and eventually it all becomes too much to take.
— Alex  Jackson, Labaerak
There’s a good reason for everything, ain’t there?
— Rebecca McNutt, Danvers: The Reckoning
The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.
— Steven Magee
What you are good at, you never do it free!
— Deyth Banger
He always said that when you are hiring someone, look at the quality of the person. It is very easy to find a good technician; it's much harder and more important to have a good person. ~ Robert Drouhin repeating what his father Maurice told him
— Don Kladstrup, Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
A good orator must be a good listener
— Aman Srivastava
By that thinking, surely she was not bad Luck, but Good, undefined.
— J.D. Lakey, Black Bead
To Make Something Good, You Must first Make it Bad
— Look Im A Cat
I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good".
— Deyth Banger
Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Quote of the day:"You are not a bad person.You are just a good person, in a bad place.
— Gary Edward Gedall
You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.''I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.''They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?
— Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
F.B.I and C.I.A use coded words.... Don't be stupid, remove everything which shows the location. Good Luck Killer :)!
— Deyth Banger
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??We know to much so let's remove us??
— Deyth Banger
Podcast is a good choice, start watching such stuff.
— Deyth Banger
Be good on terms with everyone but only keep a few close.
— Moosa Rahat
Everyday we can't connect but good things connected...
— Hitesh Chorada
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.
— Deyth Banger
It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it
— Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear
Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really that the person... (Pet Semetary 1 by Stephen King)
— Deyth Banger
One good product is better than many fake goods.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.
— Deb Caletti, The Last Forever
It is better to be polite than rude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive mind set fuels positive action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have made a mistake, well good, good this shows that you have to learn a lesson... I have also made a mistake, she also has made a mistake, all have made mistake, that's life. That's how everything works!
— Deyth Banger
I noticed that the snow was gone and the ground looked greener. It’s funny how the good stuff can wipe away the bad stuff so quickly.
— Melody J. Bremen, Room 42
Good or bad is created by humans and pertains only to them.
— Jeff Tikari
.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.
— Shannon Hale, The Unfairest of Them All
Sometimes what we think is good for others... might be destructive for them... you never know
— shivangi lavaniya
A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
GOOD: is when those values that we rate desirable are pertainingBAD: is when those same values are wanting.
— Jeff Tikari
That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.
— Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
Nothing in my life has ever felt so good, yet hurt so achingly bad.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.
— Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us
No good ever came from not talking.
— Ken Poirot
You think if someone does a brave deed quite suddenly, then he or she could never do a mean one? You are wrong. We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect - we all of us do mean or wrong things at times - but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on.
— Enid Blyton, Second Form at Malory Towers
Whatever story you create in your life, you deserve your own “Karma” be it good or bad…. - Cocoy McCoy -
— Cocoy McCoy
She’s my hero. Everything good and decent that I am is because of my mother.
— Katie Ashley, Redemption Road
Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.
— Dallin H. Oaks
The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One side would mean good and the other bad, based on your interpretation or bet of which side of the coin represents a win for you. However, you can't decide the outcome and the coin flips many times throughout your life. Finding balance is flipping the coin in such a way that neither of the sides is of greater importance to you, but if the coin lands on the middle bit, you realize that the space between what you consider good or bad is so small and the probability of landing there is also incredibly small without continuous practice. However, no matter the outcome, you choose to accept the coin as it is, with both sides, and appreciate the importance of both in your life. For the coin of life has meaning and value no matter what side it lands on. It's each individual's choice whether to bet on the outcome or not, but ultimately your coin of life will be spent somehow.
— Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.
— Brandon Sanderson, Perfect State
Never plant a seed that seems good to eyes despite plant a seed that will be a shed in the sunlight.
— merlin8thomas
If Jarod Kintz was a cat, he'd stalk people silently and deadly. Right now, all he does is bark at them for no good reason, like all the good people do.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to my parents. I treat my girl right ,,, take her out and buy her stuff. And I go to church every Sunday, But I've decided that just once I wanna do a really bad thing. I mean a really seriously bad thing. 'cause, ya know, like, we're put on this earth with free will. We can choose to do this or that. We can choose to be good or bad. But sometimes I think most people are good and not bad only because they're scared they might go to jail or hell or someplace. Some guy once said: "Anything done out of fear has no moral value." Well, I think that's right. I figure the only way you can be truly good is if you've tried been good, and you've tried being bad, and being good feels better.
— Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke
Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience
—  the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness.
Love of God," he said slowly, searching for words, "is not alwaysthe same as love of good, I wish it were that simple. We know whatis good, it is written in the Commandments. But God is notcontained only in the Commandments, you know; they are only aninfinitesimal part of Him. A man may abide by the Commandmentsand be far from God.
— Hermann Hesse
People do not have to be dreary to be good.
— Sally Holmes
And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.
— David Baldacci, Day of Doom
You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Lost Time
Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.
— Ken Poirot
Good and quiet do not connote weakness.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant.
— Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven
Nothing good seems easy. That is how life shapes our perception.
— Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven
Show me your good side and I will show you mine
— Kazeem Olalekan, Lamentations: A collection of poetry
You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not confuse reasons which sound good with good, sound reasons.
— Anonymous
People take advantage of good people. That's what I mean. So don't be a sucker.
— S. Walden, Going Under
I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
— Don Roff
Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good for the nation.
— Amit Abraham
A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good
— Sunday Adelaja
Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.
— Alan Cohen
Good could become the enemy of the best. That best is possession.
— Sunday Adelaja
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
— Bodhidharma
Every human being should regard himself as if he were exactly balanced between innocence and guilt. Simultaneously he should regard the world as being in the same case. It follows then that if he performs one good deed, he has weighted the scales in favour of both himself and of the whole world, and thus brought about salvation both for himself and for all the inhabitants of the world.
— Maimonides
Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Pleasure is the Root of All Good
— Susan Block, The Bonobo Way
God created all people good.
— Sunday Adelaja
Do good deeds and serve people, because nobody is too unimportant not to be served by you.
— Sunday Adelaja
All laws work for our good; therefore, we should know and observe them.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you are a good leader, you are a good listener.
— Miggy Villas
Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.
— Robert M. Drake, Beautiful Chaos
For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
But are there really good people? Good people, through and through? Or are we all just varying versions of bad people, some trying harder to be good?
— Anna Banks, Joyride
Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.
— G. Willow Wilson
The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.
— Terry Pratchett
But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!
— Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is only goodness which gives extra...
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Having the liberty to have freedom of choice is the greatest thing that each and everyone of us has because that makes us who we are. Do not however use this as an excuse to discriminate, segregate and stereotype mass amounts of people on the basis of a small group of individuals who have either the power or the spotlight to do bad things
— Calum Alexander Logan
Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.
— George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.
— Matt Myklusch, The Lost Prince
...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
— Socrates, Apology
I can see why some people become “beach bunnies”: you don’t have to think about things or even talk when you’re on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive.
— Jennifer Allison, Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator
It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but wecan’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.
— Louisa May Alcott
I don't know," Jason said with a shrug. "Maybe it's too late for me. Maybe my heart is already too far good."With a smile she said softly, "It's never too late to be good.
— Randall Arthur
War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?" he said. "Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?""Absol—well, okay." "Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?""All right, I'll grant you that, but—""Saving civilization from a horde of—" "It doesn't do any good in the long run is what I'm saying, Nobby, if you'd listen for five seconds together," said Fred Colon sharply. "Yeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?
— Terry Pratchett, Thud!
I know. I'm sorry." And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can't be. That girl is dead.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.
— Donald L. Hicks
If God does indeed exist, then He is good, and He is just, and He stands upon the side of right.
— Dina L. Sleiman, Dauntless
The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn't consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?
— Henrietta C. Mears
What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Good part about life is everyone is broken...
— Shujoy Chowdhury
No matter how good or bad your state of living currently is, better chapters are destined to unfold in your life.
Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good.
— Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
... for systems belonging to the singular part of the stability boundary a small change of the parameters is more likely to send the system into the unstable region than into the stable region. This is a manifestation of a general principle stating that all good things (e.g. stability) are more fragile than bad things. It seems that in good situations a number of requirements must hold simultaneously, while to call a situation bad even one failure suffices.
— Vladimir I. Arnold, Catastrophe Theory
Good Morning!
— Billy Hatcher
The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.
— Thiruman Archunan
Touched by an act of kindness, be kind to others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Good People bring out the good in other people.
— Anonymous
Most of didn’t know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!
— Elizabeth George
Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.
— Richard Sibbes, Christ Is Best
Always see the good in everyone...learn to see through God's eyes no matter what...remember, the tables may turn tomorrow. You just never know!
— Kemi Sogunle
2015 - the year of infinity - if you add all the numbers up you get 8 - which on it's side is the sign of infinity - and I think it's going to be one hell of a good year for us.
— Jay Woodman
Store good words in your heart, and you will be always and everywhere finding yourself to be in goodness. Loyalty and kindness will always be with you. Paint your good words in the blue canvas of day, and in the starry canvas of night. In this way, you will always be with reminding yourself of goodness. Place your trust in the beauty of your words. Grow and culture in your understanding of beauty and love. The path of beauty and love always welcomes you to come walk it.
— Richard Mc Sweeney, Visitant Eve
See no good, hear no good, speak no good; and the people will eventually find you good!
— Huseyn Raza
Surround yourself with good and good will prevail.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, The Journey - The Victory
Choose to see the 'good' in a person rather than pondering over the 'bad' 
— human beings are but fallible....
What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)
— Charles de Leusse
Good at something necessarily doesn't means you are bad at all the other things
— Nitin Yadav
Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.
— Melody Carlson
Anyone in this life is a good person
— Kat Unda
Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people.
— Vivian Amis
I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness.
— Marcel Proust
Never cheat on someone that is good to you ,Karma is a bitch.
— Surgeo Bell
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
— Imran Khan
And there is good money to be made when things are bad.
— Kameron Hurley, Rapture
The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him.
— Deepti Menon, Chronicles of Urban Nomads
Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight
— William James
Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.
— Jim George
Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
There's nothing like good and bad
—  It depends on the one who defines it.
Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.
— Geoffrey Wood
Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.
— Heenashree Khandelwal
I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.
— Dean Ambrose
How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?
— John Janzen
It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That’s fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.
— Donna Lynn Hope
A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.
— Laurie   Kahn, Harriet Tubman
And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
I did,” Henric said, with a triumphant look.“Oh,” Meena said, opening the book to the page 74, the one from her dream. “You mean thisprince?” She pointed at the illustration of Lucifer.Henric’s grin faltered slightly. “Precisely.”“He’s not a prince,” Meena said. “As you know perfectly well, he’s a fallen angel. And what wasLucien’s mother?”“A p-princess,” Henric stammered. But there was terror in his eyes.“No,” Lucien said, shaking his head. “She was an angel.”Meena swung around to look at him. Tears glittered in her eyes as she gazed up into his, whichhad gone back to their normal deep brown.“Yes, Lucien,” she said, holding the book open in front of him. “That’s why Henric was trying tokeep this from you. Because he realized it was the one thing that might help you remember what yourmother always taught you. You, of all people, really do have a choice. You can choose to be good . . .because you are part good. No matter how hard you try to be the devil’s son, you’ve still got an angel fora mother.
— Meg Cabot, Overbite
Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.
— H.M. Ward, The Wedding Contract
A Good Leader Promotes Peace,Not War.A Good Leader Is For The People,Not For Himself.A Good Leader Does Not Watch His People Suffer.
— Godfrey Orateng
One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.
— Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl
Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.
— Oliver Gaspirtz
A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.
— Raheel Farooq
We all men want a bad girl friend, but a good wife.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
happiness is a choice. If you choose to mope and be glum, you shall be; but if you wish to be happy and determine to enjoy what life has to offer, then you can have that as well.“She said that nothing is all good or all bad, that life offers everyone a mix of both—though sometimes it does not seem so, and bad is all we can see in our lives, while in the lives of others we see only good and feel envy. She said we must enjoy the good despite the bad, else life can beat us down and leave us hopeless, and that is no way to live.
— Lynsay Sands, Love Is Blind
Only the good die young, the bad petite-mort
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the hearts of people. Paint good photos in their minds.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
But it’s a pretense, it’s artificial,” Adelia protested. “Love, honor, respect. When are they ever extended to everyday women? I doubt if that boy actually practices what he’s singing. It’s… it’s a pleasant hypocrisy.”“Oh, I have a high regard for hypocrisy,” the little nun said. “It pays lip service to an ideal which must, therefore, exist. It recognizes that there is a Good. In its own way, it is a token of civilization. You don’t find hypocrisy among the beasts of the field.”“What good does the Good do if it is not adhered to?”“That is what I have been wondering,” Mother Edyve said calmly. “And I have come to the conclusion that perhaps the early Christians wondered it, too, and perhaps that Eleanor, in her fashion, has made a start by setting a brick in a foundation on which, with God’s help, our daughters’ daughters can begin to build a new and better Jerusalem.”“Not in time for Emma,” Adelia said.“No.”Perhaps, Adelia thought drearily, it was only a very old woman who could look hopefully on a single brick laid in a wasteland.
— Ariana Franklin, The Serpent's Tale
Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
Good people are not those who lack flaws, the brave are not those who feel no fear, and the generous are not those who never feel selfish. Extraordinary people are not extraordinary because they are invulnerable to unconscious biases. They are extraordinary because they choose to do something about it.
— Shankar Vedantam