Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

Robin S. Sharma

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Jeff Bezos

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

Traditional

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decision...

Katie Couric

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more r...

Elizabeth Perkins

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good

Sam studied his brother. At one time he thought Frankie had a good head on his shoulders. Sure, he had a temper. And he was conceited. But he always used common sense. But now he wasn’t so sure if that were true. He had brought him his lifeless fia...

Holly Hood

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Mark Rylance

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Baruch Spinoza

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Jimmy Carter

Common sense is not so common.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.

Stephan Labossiere

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

Rick Bragg

It’s common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of rel...

Mark Mittelberg

The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack ...

Dennis Prager