Wisdom Quotations

Good

Albert Schweitzer:
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Alexander Pope:
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Anne Frank:
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Benjamin Haydon:
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Charles Dickens:
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Confucius:
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Dorothy Rowe:
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

Edmund Burke:
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Elbert Hubbard:
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,
Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.

H. L. Mencken:
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Henry Brooks Adam:
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Jane Addams:
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

John Wesley:
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Mary Wollstonecraft:
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Matthew Henry:
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Plato:
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson:
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.