Be Nice Good

“Do unto others as you would wish them do onto you.â€? – Many (I recommend that everyone find time to read this. It’s not very long.)   

“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.â€? – Thomas Babington Macaulay

“The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.â€? – Abigail van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman)

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.â€? – J. C. Watts

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.â€? – Abraham Lincoln

“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still live the same life.â€? – Aristophanes

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.â€? – French proverb

“To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.â€? – Confucius

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.â€? – Harry S. Truman (It’s amazing how many people have taken – or been given – credit for this statement, from Little League coaches to Ronald Reagan.)

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.â€? – Sophocles

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.â€? – William Shakespeare

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.�- Aesop

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.â€? – Kahlil Gibran

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.â€? – Albert Einstein

“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.â€? – Booker T. Washington

“You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.� - Dick Armey

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.â€? – Buddha

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.â€? – Marcus Aurelius

“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.â€? – Mark Twain

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.â€? – Isaac Asimov

I do not accept the notion that “Might makes right.� It just gets Its way.

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.â€? – Thomas Jefferson

“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.â€? – Francois de La Rochefoucauld (because…)

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.â€? – Joseph Joubert

“There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle.â€? – Mohandas Gandhi

“Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.â€? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.â€? – Oscar Wilde

“You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.â€? – Chekhov

“Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.â€? – H. L. Mencken

“The Prohibitionists just seem sore at the world. Why not settle this Prohibition fifty-fifty? Let the Prohibitionists quit drinking.� – Will Rogers (and quit smoking and quit watching TV and movies they don’t like and quit listening to music and quit saying anything that might possibly offend anyone else and quit using birth control and whatever else they don’t want to do and most importantly, quit having sex!)

“When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned.
Do not have sex with the authorities.� – Matt Groening (Doh!)

“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.â€? – Victor Hugo

It isn’t always what you say, but how you say it.

“There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.” – Alfred Adler
 

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” – Honore de Balzac

 

“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare
 

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” – William Saroyan
 

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.” – Horace Greeley

 

“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley
 

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
 

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.” – Edward R. Murrow

 

“I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.� – Stephen Grellet

 

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
 

“Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity.” – Erich Fromm

 

“A person who takes smug pride in telling the blunt truth is a sadist, not a saint.” – Robert A. Heinlein

 

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” – Carl Gustav Jung

 

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.” – James M. Barrie

 

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” – Bertrand Russell
 

“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld