Archibald Alexander Quotes

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

I'm actually always looking for the good news.

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.