313 quotes found
“Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.”
“It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.”
“We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.”
“Generosity is the vanity of giving.”
“My only policy is to profess evil and do good.”
“For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
“Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.”
“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”
“The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.”
“When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.”
“For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.”
“Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.”
“Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
“Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.”
“Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.”
“A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.”
“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.”
