“What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”
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.
“I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.”
“What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”
“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”
“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.”
“I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.”
“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'”
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”
“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.”
“Better is the enemy of good.”
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”