Good Quotes

“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.”

Confucius

“Kindness is invincible, if it be genuine, and not an affected smile or playing a part.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”

Democritus

“The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.”

Socrates

“It is not possible to live pleasantly without living wisely and well and justly.”

Epicurus

“I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.”

Ovid

“A bad neighbour is as great a plague as a good one is a great blessing.”

Hesiod

“Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.”

Publilius Syrus

“The sage does not accumulate for himself. The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own.”

Lao Tzu

“Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man.”

Mencius

“Look upon the man who tells thee thy faults as if he told thee of a hidden treasure.”

Buddha

“Speech that causes no distress, that is truthful, pleasant and beneficial, is called the discipline of speech.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“I went searching for the bad, but found none; when I searched my own heart, I found no one worse than me.”

Kabir

“The loveless to themselves belong alone; the loving men are others' to the very bone.”

Thiruvalluvar

“When pleasant words are easy, bitter words to use, is leaving sweet ripe fruit the sour unripe to choose.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Assistance given by those who ne'er received our aid, is debt by gift of heaven and earth but poorly paid.”

Thiruvalluvar

“A timely benefit, though thing of little worth, the gift itself, in excellence transcends the earth.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Kindness shown by those who weigh not what the return may be: when you ponder right its merit, 'tis vaster than the sea.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Each benefit to those of actions' fruit who rightly deem, though small as millet-seed, as palm-tree vast will seem.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

Sophocles

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”

Henry James

“Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination.”

Francis Bacon

“A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.”

Jonathan Swift