Bill Maher Quotes

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.