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Good Quotes
Read the best good quotes on goodness, kindness and doing good from Mencius, Kant, Tolstoy, Tagore, Shakespeare, the Bible and more. Words to inspire good deeds.
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
John Milton
Good BooksReading
“A true friend is the best possession.”
Benjamin Franklin
Good FriendsFriendship
“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PatienceHope
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato
Good BeginningsAction
“The glory of a good man is the testimony of a good conscience.”
Thomas a Kempis
ConscienceIntegrity
“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Samuel Johnson
Good IntentionsAction
“Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Good HumourManners
“Kinsfolk, friends and lovers salute a man who has been long away and returns safe from afar. In like manner his good works receive him who has done good.”
Buddha
Good DeedsReward
“If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it: happiness is the outcome of good.”
Buddha
HappinessGood Habits
“Whatever a great person does, others follow; whatever standard they set, the world follows.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Good ExampleLeadership
“Duty demands no recompense; to clouds of heaven, by men what answering gift is given?”
Thiruvalluvar
Selfless ServiceDuty
“The wealth of men who love the 'fitting way,' the truly wise, is as when water fills the lake that village needs supplies.”
Thiruvalluvar
Sharing WealthCommunity
“The kindly aid's extent is of its worth no measure true; its worth is as the worth of him to whom the act you do.”
Thiruvalluvar
Helping OthersKindness
“Virtue is more to man than either water or fire.”
Confucius
VirtueCharacter
“It is only the truly virtuous man who can love, or who can hate, others.”
Confucius
VirtueJudgement
“It is no easy task to be good. For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle.”
Aristotle
BalanceEffort
“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
Isocrates
Golden RuleRespect
“When good men die their goodness does not perish.”
Euripides
LegacyGoodness
“Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.”
Epictetus
Inner GoodnessStoicism
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Cicero
GratitudeVirtue
“Love, and do what thou wilt.”
Saint Augustine
LoveFreedom
“In charity there is no excess.”
Francis Bacon
CharityGenerosity
“Nothing is so infectious as example.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good ExampleInfluence
“It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
Edmund Spenser
MindsetHappiness