“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”
What does it mean to be good? These quotes explore virtue, decency, kindness, and the daily choices that add up to a life well lived. Not preachy — just thoughtful observations from people trying to do right in a complicated world.
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.”
“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”
“If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
“Be not simply good - be good for something.”
“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.”
“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”
“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”
“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”