313 quotes found
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.”
“Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges – become the messenger of equality – become the prophet of goodness.”
“Why can’t I be like that? Why can’t I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can’t I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why ...”
“He intrigued her. Powerful men, in her experience, were usually not so full of doubt. Kuni was consumed by the desire to do good for others, but uncertain what "good" might be and whether he was th...”
“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are a...”
“No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!”
“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
“Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.”
“Genuine goodness isn’t discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.”
“Words like “patience”, and “kindness”, and “goodness”. They are the words of a hero.”
“In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.”
“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...”
“If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.”
“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.”
“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...”
