Good People Quotes - Page 30

• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I’m Willing to Live Under"". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan González, www.truth-out.org. July 10, 2013.

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• Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Compassion

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• There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Perfectly Good, Evil People

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.169, e-artnow

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• Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Men, People, Politics

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• It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.

  Unknown

  Christian, People, Joy

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  Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Communication

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• Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

  Bernie Mac

  Golf, Beer, Ice

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Integrity, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Fall, Government

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.128

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• The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

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• My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

  Sonny Perdue

  Inspiring, Leadership, Philosophy

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• One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

  Georges Courteline

  Baby, Children, Two

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• When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

  Martha Plimpton

  People, Good Things

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• When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, People, Guy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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• I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, People, Trying

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• I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• It is good people who make good places

  Anna Sewell

  Attitude, People, Good Place

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• It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

  Christopher Meloni

  Jobs, Believe, People

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  It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Time, Women

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.334, 谷月社

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

  Isabel Paterson

  School, Omission, Long

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

  Jim Henson

  People, Messages, Life Is

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.64, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love Is, Light, Evil People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.61, Image

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• A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.

  Tina Yothers

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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