Good People Quotes - Page 12

• Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Understanding, Way

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “Rebekah”

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• I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Looks, Want

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

  Erin Gruwell

  People, Evil

  Erin Gruwell (2016). “1,001 Pearls of Teachers' Wisdom: Quotations on Life and Learning”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

  Lorrie Moore

  People, Moral, Kind

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• It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Littles, Heard

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.64, Vintage

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• When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle occurs. You must never underestimate this miracle. Too many good people think they have to become Mother Teresa or Albert Schweitzer, or even Santa Claus, and perform great acts if they are to be givers. They don't see the simple openings of the heart that can be practiced anywhere with almost anyone.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mother, Heart, Simple

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.75, New World Library

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• I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Mean, Fighting

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.15, Tammara Webber

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• That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

  Ben Sherwood

  Grief, Math, Two

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

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• Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.

  James Sinegal

  Jobs, Attitude, Business

  "Costco's Competitive Secret". The Motley Fool Interview, www.fool.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

  Isak Dinesen

  Grandmother, People, Looks

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.109, Vintage

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• There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent
  to a gang bent on destruction.

  John Cage

  People, Orchestra, Gang

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• Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

  Alan Furst

  Dog, Thinking, People

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• Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.

  Patrick Henry

  Christian, Pain, Children

  "FIRST-PERSON: The faith of Patrick Henry" by Kelly Boggs, www.bpnews.net. June 27, 2014.

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• Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Knowing, Two

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• I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I think the system is very wasteful of taxpayers’ dollars. It’s also very wasteful of human potential. I found that most people whom I was locked up with were, you know, good people who have skills and value. Prison is a missed opportunity to nurture those things.

  Piper Kerman

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Prayer, Our World, People

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• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  Zakk Wylde

  People, Guy, Hysterical

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• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Fighting, Issues, People

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• Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise

  Jeff Hardy

  Opportunity, People, Promise

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• I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

  Michael Biehn

  Play, People, Care

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

  Roger Staubach

  Travel, Adventure, People

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• Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Loneliness, Hero

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• Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Sometimes, Terrible

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• In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, People, Complicated

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• Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

  Mitt Romney

  Men, People, Purpose

  "Romney addreses gay marriage issue at Liberty Univ, saying 'one man and one woman'". Mitt Romney's commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2012.

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