Be Good Quotes

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

There was a little girl, When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was horrid.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Good drama must be drastic.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

When you come to me, wear these. On a good day, prettily.

As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

It is typically Norwegian to be good

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.