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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday. – Marcus Aurelius

You can do more good by being good than any other way. – John Wooden

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. – Sun Tzu

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. – Heraclitus

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

No good deed goes unpunished. – Clare Boothe Luce

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. – Robert Louis Stevenson

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. – Thomas Paine

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. – Sun Tzu

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. – Margaret Thatcher

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. – Marcus Aurelius

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. – Marcus Aurelius

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. – Hermann Hesse

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. – Henry Ward Beecher

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. – Maxim Gorky

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. – Robert A. Heinlein

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. – Charles Dickens

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. – Martin Luther