Good quotes

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

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.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.