“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
“Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.”
“Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.”
“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
“On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.”
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today; enjoy it and bless God for it.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”