The Greater Good Quotes
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In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
— Socrates
There is something that you can do, for a greater good, for a greater cause, one that is far bigger than just yourself. Find it, and then, do it.
— Kevin Abdulrahman
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
— James McGreevey
We all have our duties here. We all suffer. We all endure our setbacks for the greater good of mankind.
— Markus Zusak
Let us not fail him; do not fear that he will fail you. And if some time he should fail you, it will be for a greater good. The
— Teresa Of Avila
I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.
— Karina Bliss
It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.
— N.K. Jemisin
Is there any greater news than the Good News?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
What good literature can do and does do - far greater than any importation of morality - is touch the human soul.
— Karen Swallow Prior
A trap, like a good
story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them
until the prey is snared. — E.J. Patten
story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them
until the prey is snared. — E.J. Patten
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
— Abigail Disney
There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?
— Jodi Picoult
The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.
— Rushworth M Kidder
What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth
— Jodi Picoult
Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.
— Al Worden
I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
— Charles B. Rangel
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
— John Tillotson
For the greater good." "That has been the excuse of tyrants throughout all time.
— Brandon Sanderson
Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
— Tammara Webber
There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.'
— Michael Franti
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.
— Madonna Ciccone
Frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.
— Richard J. Foster
Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war!
— J.K. Rowling
Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.
— Joanne Guidoccio
Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
— Zach Braff
As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
— Stephen King
Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life.
— Aristotle.
I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
We must understand that our talents and our wealth are only loaned to us, in trusteeship, to use toward the greater good.
— Christopher Benninger
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
— Tom Hiddleston
I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
— Sean Patrick Flanery
When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.
— Simon R. Green
Sometimes pain is for the greater good.
— Veronica Roth
Sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good!
— J.K. Rowling
The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.
— Rachel Bach
For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
— Johnny Vegas
I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father again.
I will help you. — M.L. LeGette
I will help you. — M.L. LeGette
There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
— Billy Martin
the greater the positive deeds they put out in the universe, the better the chances of their attracting good luck.
— Ashwin Sanghi
When we have specific interests or purposes, can we leverage this tsunami of multimedia to our own individual aims and for the greater good of all?
— Mark T. Maybury
Being good to people is always better than giving any sermon. Being kind & caring to others speaks much greater than any words can ever do.
— Timothy Pina
Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
— Sarah J. Maas
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
— Tracy Letts
What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
— Flora Thompson
Unbridled truth often gets sacrificed on the altar of the greater good.
— Robert J. Crane
You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.
— John Connolly
Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.
— Mariane Pearl
For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
We seize control FOR THE GREATER GOOD.
— J.K. Rowling
Leadership always benefits the greater good.
— Mark Sanborn
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves
— Lorna Goodison
Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.
— Terry Brooks
Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater.
— Lloyd Alexander
The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
— Marshall Field
Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good.
— Israelmore Ayivor
There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!
— Bernard Cornwell
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
— Joan Didion
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
— Joseph Addison
The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
— William Shakespeare
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good.
— Emerson Hough
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
— James E. Faust
What is the greater good but tyranny's chameleon?
— Karen Marie Moning
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
— Saint Augustine
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.
— Joel Miller
Take a stand. Be disruptive for the greater good of your company. Make a difference to other's people's lives.
— Timi Nadela