Be Good Quotes

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!

There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

I think he [Donald Trump] is generally a good person, but you know what? He had no business being president of the United States. If I thought he did, I wouldn't be running. I'd be helping him.

The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

A good liar must have a good memory.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Usually, your personality doesn't come out on the cover of Vogue. If the photographer says, "Smile," you smile. You might not be in a good mood that day, but you're smiling anyway.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Ive learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.