Good People Quotes - Page 6

• It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Punishment, People

  53 Copy quote

• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Fate, Light

  13 Copy quote

• Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Priorities, Management

  Lee Iacocca, Catherine Whitney (2008). “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.

  Louise Hay

  Money, Nice, People

  4 Copy quote

• I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. [...] There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.

  Cat Power

  War, Mistake, Moving

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, People, Said

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Sometimes, Terrible

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  "Billy Graham’s grandson takes Christians to task: An interview with Tullian Tchividjian". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. October 2, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

  Deval Patrick

  Giving Up, Games, People

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

  Duane G. Carey

  Opportunity, People, Way

  8 Copy quote

• Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Heaven, Enemy

  53 Copy quote

• Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

  C.J. Sansom

  Boys, People, Littles

  C. J. Sansom (2006). “Winter in Madrid”, Macmillan Children's Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.

  Dan Harmon

  War, Thinking, Two

  13 Copy quote

• It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.

  David Benatar

  Children, People, Suffering

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

  Iris Johansen

  Good Life, Believe, Moving

  Iris Johansen (2008). “Quicksand: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller”, p.191, St. Martin's Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  Young Jeezy

  Thinking, Skills, People

  167 Copy quote

• The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

  A. E. Housman

  People, Dumb, Church

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 21

  21 Copy quote

  Show source