Good People Quotes

• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Wisdom, Bad Relationship

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Memories, Good Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 08, 2014

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• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Evil, Arithmetic

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

  Amy Bloom

  People, Interesting, Bad Things

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• Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

  William E. Simon

  People, Political, Voting

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

  Corey Taylor

  People, Happens, Bad Things

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

  Michael Nesmith

  People, Thieves, Way

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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  Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Success, Peace

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 04, 2014

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• As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.

  Ronnie Apteker

  People, Entrepreneur, Surround Yourself

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.208, Chicken House

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• The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Kings, People

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• Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

  Molly Sims

  Being Yourself, People, Gone

  FaceBook post by Molly Sims from Oct 09, 2011

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  I think good things come to good people.

  Derrick Rose

  Thinking, People, Good Things

  Source: espn.go.com

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• The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient to us –and take them for granted because their doors are always open, only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of truth.

  Suzy Kassem

  Cheer, Dark, Fighting

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• Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, People, Done

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• I like normal, simple, good people.

  Sandra Bullock

  Simple, People, Normal

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• The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Organization, Impact

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• We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Believe, People, Goodness

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 09, 2014

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• Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Beautiful, People, Beautiful People

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• Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Integrity, Insperational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 16), circa 170.

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• Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  People, Religion, Atheism

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