Be Good Quotes

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

All good art is an indiscretion.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.