974 private quotes tagged good

“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.” — Lao Tzu

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“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” — Edmund Burke

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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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.'” — Lao Tzu

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“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” — Confucius

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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” — Sigmund Freud

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“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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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” — Ansel Adams

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” — Mark Twain

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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain

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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” — Thomas Paine

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There is no such thing as a good tax.” — Winston Churchill

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“Only the young die good.” — Oliver Herford

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.” — John Wooden

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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'” — Steven Wright

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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