Good People Quotes - Page 16

• I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

  Julian Casablancas

  Race, People, Generations

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• What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Doe, Favors

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• Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Suffering

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.16, Macmillan

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• It's cool because you get to see that some of these women are there because they should be. They're actually not good people to be in society. And then, other people are there because they just made a really retarded mistake.

  Laura Prepon

  Mistake, People, Retarded

  Source: collider.com

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• Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

  Huineng

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Disrespect, Way

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

  Luke Ford

  Christian, People, Want

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• There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Lobbyists, Purpose

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• I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  A. C. Benson

  Happiness, People, Unhappy

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• In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Drama, People, Evil

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• Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

  Michael Gerson

  Atheist, People, Judging

  "What Atheists Can't Answer". www.washingtonpost.com. July 13, 2007.

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• Surround yourself with good people, surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.

  Ali Krieger

  Positivity, People, Challenges

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• I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.

  Mata Hari

  Believe, Taken, Winning

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Two, People, Listening

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

  Hannah More

  Book, People, Want

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• It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Selfish, Men, People

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• What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, People, Grace

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Life, Short Life, Real

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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sacrifice, People, Neighbor

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Priorities, Littles

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.114, Routledge

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• I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters”

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• The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

  Robyn

  Character, People, Culture

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Give your stuff away and if it's good, people will come to you.

  John Dyer Baizley

  People, Giving, Stuff

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• At times it seems as if you're a glorified babysitter with these guys, but they're all really good people. You just want to keep everybody happy. One of the biggest things is to keep the lines of communication open and just to keep everything running as smoothly as possible.

  Gerad Adams

  Running, Communication, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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