Be Good Quotes

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

There's no good guys and bad guys.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

I always feel happy when I'm making smart decisions with food - instead of focusing on what I shouldn't eat, I focus on what I should eat. It's all about being happy and feeling good!

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

I'm a very good sleeper.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."