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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.”
— Dalai Lama
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“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.”
— Eileen Caddy
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“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
— Buddha
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“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
— Buddha
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“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”
— Lao Tzu
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“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
— Buddha
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“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.'”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“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.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“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.”
— Steve Jobs
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“Paris is always a good idea.”
— Audrey Hepburn
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“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.”
— Buddha
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“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
— Buddha
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“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.”
— Buddha
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“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“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.”
— Sigmund Freud
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“Better is the enemy of good.”
— Voltaire
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
— Socrates
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“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
— T. S. Eliot
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“It's always good to be underestimated.”
— Donald Trump
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