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Be Good Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Be not merely good. Be good for something.
- Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or…
- As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
- The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though…
- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
More Be Good Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. — Arthur Ashe
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- Be good to others, that will protect you against evil. — Abu Bakr
- A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. — Henry Ward Beecher
- A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also… — Bhumibol Adulyadej
- On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We… — Alain de Botton
- I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be… — Ray Bradbury
- Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. — Tony Abbott
- No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. — Bertolt Brecht