Mary Archer Quotes

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

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.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

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

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.

It costs you something to do good!

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

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

When I was younger, I was impressed by those who were educated, accomplished, successful, and applauded by the world. But over the years, I have come to the realization that I am far more impressed by those wonderful and blessed souls who are truly good and without guile.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

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

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.