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3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

3 December 2020 Usain Bolt

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

3 December 2020 Andrea Corr

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

3 December 2020 Peter Tosh

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good – be good for something.

3 December 2020 John Barrymore

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

3 December 2020 David Bailey

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

3 December 2020 Dolly Parton

It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.

3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

3 December 2020 Algernon Sidney

Liars need to have good memories.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

3 December 2020 Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

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

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.

3 December 2020 Dr. Seuss

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

3 December 2020 Joseph Stalin

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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