Alan Furst Quotes

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.