Quotes on Be Good

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

Be not merely good. Be good for something.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.