“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Good Quotes
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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.
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Mark Twain
KindnessHappiness
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
Robert Frost
NeighboursBoundaries
“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket.”
William Wordsworth
LifePoetry
“Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.”
William Shakespeare
Silver LiningFortune
“A good riddance.”
William Shakespeare
FunnyLetting Go
“Are you good men and true?”
William Shakespeare
TrustCharacter
“Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.”
The Bible (Psalm 125:4)
BlessingPrayer
“Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:15)
WisdomChoices
“The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.”
The Bible (Proverbs 15:30)
Good NewsJoy
“That ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
The Bible (Romans 12:2)
PurposeFaith
“But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.”
The Bible (Galatians 4:18)
PassionGood Causes
“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”
The Bible (2 Timothy 2:3)
PerseveranceFaith
“She hath wrought a good work on me.”
The Bible (Mark 14:6)
Good DeedsGratitude
“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”
The Bible (John 10:11)
SacrificeCare
“There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken.”
The Bible (Joshua 21:45)
PromisesFaithfulness
“Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!”
The Bible (Psalm 107:8)
GratitudePraise
“He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.”
The Bible (Proverbs 22:9)
GenerosityBlessing
“Provide things honest in the sight of all men.”
The Bible (Romans 12:17)
HonestyIntegrity
“Ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.”
The Bible (1 Thessalonians 5:15)
GoodnessKindness
“And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.”
The Bible (Proverbs 14:14)
ContentmentCharacter
“I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.”
The Bible (Romans 16:19)
WisdomInnocence
“Being fruitful in every good work.”
The Bible (Colossians 1:10)
Good DeedsGrowth
“Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”
The Bible (James 3:13)
HumilityWisdom
“And wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.”
The Bible (2 Chronicles 31:20)
Doing RightTruth