Quotes about Good
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
- St. Augustine
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.
- Donald Trump
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'
- Donald Trump
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- John Milton
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
- Thomas a Kempis
There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
- Edmund Burke
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
- John Adams
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
- Abraham Lincoln