Good

Jim Collins on Good and Great

"Good is the enemy of great."

— Jim Collins

Lincoln on Good

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

— Abraham Lincoln

Whistler on Good

"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."

— James Whistler

Wolfgang von Goethe on Good

"If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whitman on Good-Fortune

"Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune."

— Walt Whitman

"Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things."

— Glorie Abelhas

Emerson on Asking Questions

"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert on Good Days

"If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one."

— Cavett Robert

Wisdom Through Failure

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

— William Saroyan

Whitman on Battles

"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."

— Walt Whitman

Johnston on Complaining

"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."

— Lynn Johnston

Billings on Laughing

"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot."

— Josh Billings

Rousseau on Happiness

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Requirements for Happiness

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

— Gustave Flaubert

Schweitzer on Happiness

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

— Albert Schweitzer

Your Own Terms

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

— Anna Quindlen

Gandhi on a Good Idea

"I think it would be a good idea."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi on Violence

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi on Disagreement

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Good and Bad Novels

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

— G. K. Chesterton

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