Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Roberto Rossellini

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Juvenal

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Joel Osteen

Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.

John Gokongwei

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

John Fowles

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Jon Stewart

You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.