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"Which is more important, good or bad? Regardless of which you consider to be the right answer, bad is often the bigger part of our thoughts. The traffic jam that bogs down our day stays in our thoughts longer than the open road that sped us on our way. The rude clerk is memorable long after the nice clerk is forgotten. Remind yourself to see the good, to think about the good, to remember the good. The good is out there just as much as the bad, but we are often prone to miss it."
-- David Niven: The 100 Simple Secrets of The Better Half of Life

"Which is more important, good or bad? Regardless of which you consider to be the right answer, bad is often the bigger part of our thoughts. The traffic jam that bogs down our day stays in our thoughts longer than the open road that sped us on our way. The rude clerk is memorable long after the nice clerk is forgotten. Remind yourself to see the good, to think about the good, to remember the good. The good is out there just as much as the bad, but we are often prone to miss it."
-- David Niven, actor and author

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
--Seneca

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
-- H. A. Overstreet

"Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can."
-- John Wesley

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
-- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"The good that people can do emanates and multiplies from the good that one person can do."
-- Lewis Richmond

"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."
-- Confucius

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-- William Penn, 1644-1718, Religious Leader and Founder of Pennsylvania

"Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil - the silent, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."
-- William George Jordan

"Let us choose to believe something good can happen."
-- J. Martin Kohe, author

"Men, in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Good, Better, Best
Never rest till good be better
And better be best!"
-- Harvey Mackay

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke, British statesman

"Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life."
-- John Cunningham Geikie (1826–1906)

"Freedom of choice is not a formal abstract capacity which one either 'has' or 'has not'; it is, rather, a function of a person's character structure. Some people have no freedom to choose the good because their character structure has lost the capacity to act in accordance with the good. Some people have lost the capacity of choosing the evil, precisely because their character structure has lost the craving for evil ... The longer we continue to make the wrong decisions, the more our heart hardens; the more often we make the right decisions, the more our heart softens -- or better perhaps, becomes alive."
-- Eric Fromm: The Heart of Man

"When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing we fight a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil."
-- Vincent Van Gogh (in letter to Theo van Gogh Amsterdam, 30 May 1877)