Edwin Arnold Quotes

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

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

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.