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• And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Mean, Order

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• No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

  Samuel Smiles

  Giving Up, Race, Forever

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees

  Guru Angad

  Karma, Blessed, Names

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• Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

  Ramakrishna

  Love, Spiritual, Moving

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• I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

  Hironobu Sakaguchi

  Thinking, Games, Stories

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• Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

  Tucker Max

  Heaven, Half, Action

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• Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Desire, Agitation

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• Be persistent in good actions.

  Muhammad

  Quality, Action, Persistent

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• The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.

  Errico Malatesta

  Thinking, Errors, Brain

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.109, PM Press

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• People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Evil, Trying

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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• Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

  Niels Arden Oplev

  Revenge, Drama, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  People, Giving, Feelings

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• What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivation, Twenties, Action

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet's Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Gita, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.125, Orient Paperbacks

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• The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

  Richard Whately

  Hands, Action, Admiration

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.535

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• Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Ornaments, Action, Sentiments

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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• There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.

  Vinnie Jones

  Stars, Kids, Play

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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• As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Book, Adventure

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• I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, People, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Liberty, Emulation, Example

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