Be Good Quotes

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Every day is not perfect. You have your bad days and good days just like anyone else. You do not want to talk to people sometimes. It is normal.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.