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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong,… — Patricia Churchland
Nothing is so sour that it can't be sweetened by a good attitude. — Woodrow M. Kroll
Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad. — Dwight L. Moody
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to… — C.S. Lewis
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. — Thomas Carlyle
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. — Seneca the Younger
Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor… — M. Russell Ballard
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results. — Earl Nightingale
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. — Lance Armstrong
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. — Joseph Addison
Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going… — Zig Ziglar
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. — E. Michael Burke
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. — Earl Weaver

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