Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Good

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here? “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where…” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–98) British Anglican Author, Mathematician, Clergyman, Photographer, Logician

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though—because with good humor you’re blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Unknown

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — “But these impulses may be from below, not from above”. I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil”. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one’s self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Not only is there little stigma attributed to going bankrupt among cutting-edge entrepreneurs, it’s even seen as a good source of business experience.
Unknown

Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher

Sir John Templeton: “My ethical principle in the first place was: ‘Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?’”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister

Don’t wait until you die to learn the warrior’s way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.
Dan Millman (b.1946) American Children’s Books Writer, Sportsperson

Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Whatever results you’re getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren’t going well in your outer life, it’s because things aren’t going well in your inner life. It’s that simple.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

If we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call “soul” can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin (b.1937) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Sipping a pina colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn’t compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

Adopt an attitude of “It’s all happening perfectly. Let’s see what good I can create from the situation”.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Why don’t I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
Anthony de Mello (1931–87) Indian-born American Theologian

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