Good Quotes

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"There is no such thing as being good to your wife"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say"

Will Durant, Historian

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them"

Jane Austen, Writer

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist"

Terence, Playwright

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds"

Democritus, Philosopher

"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong"

Democritus, Philosopher

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good"

John Locke, Philosopher

"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way"

John Morley, Statesman

"A proverb is good sense brought to a point"

John Morley, Statesman

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community"

William Blackstone, Judge

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights"

William Blackstone, Judge

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