“A good mind possesses a kingdom.”
Seneca
MindsetInner Wealth
Good Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GOOD
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.
“It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.”
Aristotle
Good HabitsYouth
“The good man is the teacher of the bad, and the bad man is the material of the good.”
Lao Tzu
LearningWisdom
“Benevolence subdues its opposite just as water subdues fire.”
Mencius
KindnessPower
“Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.”
Buddha
EffortDiscipline
“Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night.”
Buddha
CharacterReputation
“In this path no effort is ever lost, and no harm is ever done. Even a little of this practice protects one from great fear.”
The Bhagavad Gita
EffortEncouragement
“Though men declare it heavenward path, yet to receive is ill; though upper heaven were not, to give is good.”
Thiruvalluvar
GivingGenerosity
“Do deeds of virtue now. Say not, 'To-morrow we'll be wise'; thus, when thou diest, shalt thou find a help that never dies.”
Thiruvalluvar
Act NowVirtue
“What from virtue floweth, yieldeth dear delight; all else extern, is void of glory's light.”
Thiruvalluvar
JoyVirtue
“'Virtue' is all that lies in duty's path to do; 'vice' all that lies in duty's path to shun.”
Thiruvalluvar
DutyChoices
“Doing good to others is the one great universal religion.”
Swami Vivekananda
ServiceFaith
“To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue: gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
Confucius
VirtueKindness
“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.”
Aeschylus
LearningAge
“Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.”
Thomas a Kempis
ChoicesWisdom
“There's small choice in rotten apples.”
William Shakespeare
ChoicesFunny
“Tell truth and shame the devil.”
William Shakespeare
HonestyCourage
“There is no virtue like necessity.”
William Shakespeare
NecessityResilience
“Good words cool more than cold water.”
George Herbert
Kind WordsCalm
“Good is not good, where better is expected.”
Thomas Fuller
ExpectationsExcellence
“He who praises everybody praises nobody.”
Samuel Johnson
PraiseHonesty
“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
Edmund Burke
OrderSociety
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ConscienceCourage
“Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
Oscar Wilde
ResolutionsFunny
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain
MannersFunny