974 private quotes tagged good

“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.” — Ann Landers

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank

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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

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“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.” — Plato

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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.” — Plato

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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The good is the beautiful.” — Plato

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“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” — Sun Tzu

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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.” — Ayn Rand

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato

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“Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” — Oscar Wilde

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