Joel Gretsch Quotes

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

A good deed is a good deed.

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

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.'

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.