“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.”
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“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”
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“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
“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.”
“Paris is always a good idea.”
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
“The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.”
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
“He that does good to another does good also to himself.”
“Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.”
“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”