Good sayings | saying.tel

Sayings about Good:

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.: Joseph Addison

Half the misery of life might be extinguished would man alleviate the general curse by mutual compassion.: Joseph Addison

To an honest mind the best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gives a man of doing good.: Joseph Addison

Neglect no opportunity of doing good, nor check thy desire of doing it by a vain fear of what may happen.: Francis Atterbury

He will exercise himself with pleasure, and without weariness, in that godlike employment of doing good.: Francis Atterbury

Nothing can be of greater use and defence to the mind than the discovering of the colours of good and evil, showing in what cases they hold, and in what they deceive.: Francis Bacon

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love: pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.: Saint Basil

A good man acts with a vigour, and suffers with a patience, more than human, when he believes himself countenanced by the Almighty.: Hugh Blair

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.: Pierre Charron

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself with all his might well for to do.: Geoffrey Chaucer

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow-creatures.: Cicero

The happiness of mankind is the end of virtue, and truth is the knowledge of the means; which he will never seriously attempt to discover who has not habitually interested himself in the welfare of others.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

’Tis so much in your nature to do good that your life is but one continued act of placing benefits on many; as the sun is always carrying his light to some part or other of the world.: John Dryden

You are still living to enjoy the blessings of all the good you have performed, and many prayers that your power of doing generous actions may be extended as you will.: John Dryden

Profuseness of doing good, a soul unsatisfied with all it has done, and an unextinguished desire of doing more.: John Dryden

Every man calleth that which pleaseth, and is delightful to himself, good; and that evil which displeaseth him.: Thomas Hobbes

Some things are good, yet in so mean a degree of goodness that many are only not disproved nor disallowed of God for them.: Richard Hooker

The labour of doing good, with the pleasure arising from the contrary, doth make men for the most part slower to the one and proner to the other than that duty, prescribed them by law, can prevail sufficiently with them.: Richard Hooker

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.: Ben Jonson

A good man always profits by his endeavour; yea, when he is absent; nay, when he is dead; by his example and memory.: Ben Jonson

If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved them for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be discouraged.: Alphonse Lamartine

If there be nothing so glorious as doing good, if there is nothing that makes us so like God, then nothing can be so glorious in the use of our money as to use it all in works of love and goodness.: William Law

This useful, charitable, humble employment of yourselves is what I recommend to you with greatest earnestness, as being a substantial part of a wise and pious life.: William Law

If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.: John Locke

Good is what is apt to cause or increase pleasure or diminish pain in us; or else to procure or preserve us in the possession of any other good, or absence of any evil.: John Locke

All absent good does not, according to the greatness it has, or is acknowledged to have, cause pain equal to that greatness, as all pain causes desire equal to itself; because the absence of good is not always a pain, as the presence of pain is.: John Locke

Were every action concluded within itself, and drew no consequences after it, we should, undoubtedly, never err in our choice of good.: John Locke

The infinitely greatest confessed good is neglected to satisfy the successive uneasiness of our desires pursuing trifles.: John Locke

That which is good to be done cannot be done too soon; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all.: Bishop Richard Mant

Good-morrow to your night-cap.: John O'Keefe

He that does good to another man does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for the conscience of well-doing is an ample reward.: Seneca

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.: Earl of Shaftesbury

Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practised, but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act.: Earl of Shaftesbury

Are you good men and true?: William Shakespeare

Good-morrow to you both.: William Shakespeare

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out.: William Shakespeare

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.: William Shakespeare

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life.: Sir Philip Sidney

By our law, no good is to be left undone towards all: not the good of the tongue, the hand, the heart.: Robert South

By good, good morally so called, bonum honestum ought chiefly to be understood; and that the good of profit or pleasure, the bonum utile or jucundum, hardly come into any account here.: Robert South

Hardly shall you find any one so bad but he desires the credit of being thought good.: Robert South

Desires, by a long estrangement from better things, come at length to loathe them.: Robert South

The true profession of Christianity inviolably engages all its followers to do good to all men.: Thomas Sprat

He has more goodness in his little finger Than you have in your whole body.: Jonathan Swift

In this world whatever is called good is comparatively with other things of its kind, or with the evil mingled in its composition: so he is a good man that is better than men comparatively are, or in whom the good qualities are more than the bad.: Sir William Temple

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that, when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.: John Tillotson

Nor is the lowest herd incapable of that sincerest of pleasures, the consciousness of acting right; for rectitude does not consist in extensiveness of knowledge, but in doing the best according to the lights afforded.: Abraham Tucker

Oh, Sir! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer’s dust Burn to the socket.: William Wordsworth

More Information: Directory information
Good sayings

Good – famous sayings and quotes.
Saying.tel – site for mobile phones.

Powered by: