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There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. -- James E. Faust
You can make a good living while serving a greater good. -- Ivan Misner
To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. -- Joan Didion
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good. -- Oprah Winfrey
Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth. -- O. J. Brigance
As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good. -- Louise Hay
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
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
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
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality. -- Joseph Addison
The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good. -- Christian D. Larson
Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late! -- Jane Siberry
It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good. -- Steven Brust
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. -- Sophocles
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other. -- Desmond Tutu
You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about. -- Richard Trumka
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything. -- John Green
Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive. -- Greg Brown
Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in. -- Catherine Ponder
I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good. -- Jacqueline Woodson
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man. -- Criss Jami
Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling. -- Ernest Holmes
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection. -- Alphonsus Liguori
We can overcome evil with greater good. -- Laura Bush
Sometimes pain is for the greater good. -- Veronica Roth
Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. -- Sheri Holman
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye. -- Madonna Ciccone
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It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater. -- Nicki Minaj
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good. -- Rita Mae Brown
Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind. -- Steven Furtick
There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse. -- Muriel Wace
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil. -- Larry Wall
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good. -- James Patterson
There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings. -- Sri Chinmoy
... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good. -- Barack Obama
The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good. -- Joe Kraus
When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater. -- Cynthia Weil
Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good. -- H. Emilie Cady
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. -- Baruch Spinoza
For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason. -- Johnny Vegas
What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends? -- Flora Thompson
Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good. -- Zach Braff
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. -- Albert C. Barnes
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. -- John Cheever
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. -- Sheri Holman
Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful. -- Mariane Pearl
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. -- Honore de Balzac
I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. -- Peter Dinklage
There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. -- Tracy Letts
It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat, -- Gifford Pinchot
Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart. -- Russell Crowe
Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart. -- Russell Crowe
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting. -- danah boyd
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ. -- Billy Graham
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity. -- Marshall Field
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. -- Tom Hiddleston
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
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents. -- Lord Chesterfield
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors. -- Laurence Sterne
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
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
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
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life. -- Joseph Prince
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good. -- Douglas B. Reeves
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence. -- Chuck Palahniuk
To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity! -- Pope Francis
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
Most of us entered journalism and joined news organizations because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- David Shuster
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- David Shuster
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
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare. -- Chogyam Trungpa
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. . -- Aristotle
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
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself? -- Ted Dekker
In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience. -- James C. Collins
I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out. -- Jimmy Cliff
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -- Calvin Coolidge
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
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. -- John Stuart Mill
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all. -- Linus Pauling
Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose. -- David Deida
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause. -- Albert Einstein
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
Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business. -- will.i.am
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. -- Daniel Handler
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 more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. -- James Allen
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
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. -- Daniel Handler
Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question. -- Liza Campbell
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy. -- Charles Dickens
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are. -- Tom Patton
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. -- David Bohm
When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment. -- Jason Evert
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family. -- Rachel Griffiths
We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good. -- Kevin B. Rollins
I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways! -- James May
Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all. -- Leonard Pitts
Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good. -- Andrea Riseborough
If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive. -- Romany Malco
Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting. -- Tom Riley

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