There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those whose hearts are dry and whose eyes are dry!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.
Marcus Aurelius
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
Tyrion Lannister
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
Albert Einstein
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ultimately our greatest joy is when we seek to do good for others.
Desmond Tutu
The master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
Lao Tzu
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.
Buddha
There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is. But one has to take it all with good humor.
Albert Einstein
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.
Marcus Aurelius
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Augustine of Hippo
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
Frank Herbert
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
Louisa May Alcott
And then you might see what the life of the good man is like – someone content with what nature assigns him, and satisfied with being just and kind himself.
Marcus Aurelius
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu
Be not simply good – be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
To live a good life, prioritize your health. To prioritize your health, learn to say no. To say no, learn to be courageous. To be courageous, learn to love yourself.
Maxime Lagacé
How far a little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.
Maya Angelou
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty.
Albert Einstein
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Be a good person, but don’t waste your time trying to prove it.
Paulo Coelho