It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.