Quotes about Good

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

There is no possible source of evil except good.