“How beautiful it is when goodness succeeds badness; and how unappealing it is when evil succeeds goodness.”

“Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad — and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.”

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist

“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“How goodness heightens beauty!”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

“Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

“Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices.”

Masaaki Imai (1930) Japanese business theorist and consultant

“Enjoy every minute of the process that leads you to goodness, to success. No matter how difficult the challenges, obstacles and trials you have to face. If you fail, try again! Fall down, get up again! When you succeed, what you have gone through will be a great story.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited … and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics