Good Quotes

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.