Character Quote by Edward Slingerland

“If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”

— Orson Scott Card

“You can't be a bad person who does good things. If you do good things, you're not bad; you're good. There is simply no…

— Johnny B. Truant

“Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good'…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Sometimes bad is good.” “Bullshit. That’s what people say to alleviate their own guilt or justify their own weakness. Bad is bad. A is…

— J. Kenner

“The notion of good and bad is only in people's minds for there is only virtue and excess. Happiness and wisdom are virtues, sadness…

— Insidious Nocturne

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

— Democritus

“Being good does make a difference. You will not receive praise or payment for it, and other people will mistake your goodness for weakness,…

— Jessica Zafra

“The quality of any action of body, speech, and mind is primarily determined by the motivation. Thus any action done with positive motivation brings…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Being good is not a state of mind, it is a constant struggle. - On Being Good”

— Lamine Pearlheart

“We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.”

— Paul E. Miller

“There can be no Positive result from a Negative attitude. Think Positive. Live Positive.-RVM”

— RVM

“There's a difference between being good and doing bad things. Sometimes, a person does something because he doesn't have a choice. He might not…

— Lorraine Heath