Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
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To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.
I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
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