Adjective : Reorganizing the files was a laudable idea.    From Dictionary.com. 

The antithesis is not a good one, between the difficulty of Jeanie's 'personal exertions' and the laudableness of the motive which led to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

But it must be remembered that such sentiments, from their very universality and evident laudableness, need correctives, for they bear in themselves a great danger of excess or of precipitancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles] Reference

Inlarging upon the goodness of their intention & reminding him of your letter, he answer'd that the Lords would not dispute the laudableness of the design, but that there were political reasons for their not confirming it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference