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- The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
- Anonymous
- All good things are wild, and free.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
- There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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