Be Good Quotes

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

A good girl is supposed to be very quiet

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I'm weird. I still believe that when you do good deeds, you get something back in return. That's why I really enjoy helping other guys succeed.

Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.

This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

Good photography is unpretentious.

Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.