Be Good Quotes

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.