Be Good Quotes

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.

When you are famous, you never can be sure why somebody's being nice. You just have to develop a very good sixth sense. I call it my bullshit detector.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

The best is good enough for me.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.

When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.

Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.