313 quotes found
“During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here?”
“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
“Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.”
“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebo...”
“In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite...”
“Do what you feel is right and good. There will always be haters and naysayers..and their problem..is just that..their problem!”
“During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.”
“And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass,It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would...”
“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
“I've thought about that often since. I mean, about the word nice. Perhaps I mean good. Of course they mean nothing, when you start to think about them. A good man, one says; a good woman; a nice ma...”
“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ”
“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”
“Its better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.”
“Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.”
“Not all good things come from good people.”
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?”
“I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something...”
“But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring ou...”
“The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteemnothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would pract...”
