Quotes with good-natured

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• The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

  Maria Montessori
  Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

  Sir William Temple
  British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

  Theodore Roosevelt
  American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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• The foundation of justice is good faith.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.

  Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  British general (1887 - 1976)
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• The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

  Betsy Beers
  American television and film producer (1957 - )
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• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
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• The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.

  Ashley Montagu
  British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

  Billy Joel
  American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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• The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

  Robert Alan
  American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

  Charles Browder
   
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• The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset
  Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  Carl Rogers
  American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
  

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  Mahatma Gandhi
  Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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• The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

  John Dewey
  American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• qualifications
• masterpieces
• individuals
• exploration
• contingency
• destination

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