John Clare Quotes

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

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.'

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

The people who think it a shame when anything goes wrong—who rush to the conclusion that evil could or ought to have been prevented, are those who, in the long run, do most to make the world better.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

Actions speak louder than words, and the best way to set an example is to just go out and do a good job.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.