Quotes about Good
Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
— Shane Claiborne
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
— Henry David Thoreau
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
— Thomas Jefferson
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
— Andrew Carnegie
Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
— Stephen Covey
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Whoever of you love life and desire to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Seek peace and pursue it.
— Shimon Peres
My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.
— Jack Canfield
To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
— Wendell Berry
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
— Pope Benedict XVI