Be Good Quotes

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.

I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

A good character is the best tombstone.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.