Be Good Quotes

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

I guess good things come to those who wait.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

Doing good is good for business.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.