Be Good Quotes

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.