It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
-- Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
1814-1876, Russian Political Theorist
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
-- Saul Bellow
1915-, American Novelist
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
-- Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
-- Emily Bronte
1818-1848, British Novelist, Poet
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
-- Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet
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We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
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