Quotes about Good

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn't well-rounded?

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

when good people do good, and evil people do evil, it is not surprising. But when good people do evil, it takes religion to do that.