“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Biographical Studies (1907)
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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“A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.”
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Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 6; note that the short phrase "Be good, do good" had occurred in spiritual teachings of others in the 19th century, usually in conjunction with other injunctions. "Be Good, Do Good" became a prominent motto of the Divine Life Society.
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 207
Variant: Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.
Stephen R. Covey book First Things First
Source: First Things First (1994), p. 113
Context: It's not enough to have values without vision; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler. An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.