Be Good Quotes

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse, ' is it?'

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

I like to think I'm a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to share those good times with others.

The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

I can be a binger when it comes to information, but most of the time, I'm pretty good, and I try to focus on my own life and personal communication.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.