Quotes about Good
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
— CS Lewis
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
— Anonymous
The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.
— George W. Bush
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
— Thomas Jefferson
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
— Charles Dickens
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
— Bo Burnham
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
— Washington Irving
Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.
— Jimmy Carter
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
— Henry David Thoreau
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
— Martin Luther
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
— Charles Dickens