Good People Quotes - Page 3

• A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Self, Essence

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• When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

  Omar Suleiman

  Love You, Heart, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jun 07, 2013

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Grateful, Tough Times, Good Enough

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• My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.

  George Stults

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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• You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to become another person altogether to be able to take a hard look. Good people protect people they love, even if that means pretending that everything is okay.

  Ron McLarty

  Mean, Eye, People

  Ron McLarty (2005). “The Memory of Running”, p.31, Penguin

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• I'm stupid," Leo mumbled. "Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite." He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. When he aligned the last ring, something inside the sphere clicked. The door swung open. Leo beamed at his friends. "That, good people, is how we do things in Leo World. Come on in!" "I hate Leo World," Frank muttered. Hazel laughed.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Stupid, Doors

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• My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

  Ned Vizzini

  Thinking, People, Television

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• Evil will win if good people do nothing.

  P. C. Cast

  Winning, People, Evil

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• I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Favour, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.33, Dramatic Publishing

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• For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

  Kevin Hearne

  Kindness, Regret, Stress

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.716, Del Rey

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• Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Love You, Sadness

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• A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.

  Jane Yolen

  Mother, Teacher, Dog

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• ... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

  Mercedes Lackey

  People, Sometimes, Terrible

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• I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

  Abraham Verghese

  Thinking, People, Scripture

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.113, Random House India

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• You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

  Janette Rallison

  Love You, People, Decision

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• The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

  Edith Wharton

  Hands, People, Golden

  "Complete Works of Edith Wharton".

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love You, Race, People

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.

  Karen Marie Moning

  People, Easy, Midst

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 29, 2015

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• We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.

  Jim Thompson

  Mean, Kids, Fighting

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Fighting, Fate

  Jonathan Haidt (2016). “Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?: from The Righteous Mind”, p.46, Vintage

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• The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

  Holly Black

  Hard Times, Funny Things, Ideas

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Thinking

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