Be Good Quotes

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

The more you give, the more good things come to you.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Baseball has been very good to me.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

I've been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they're always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they're doing.

Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

The soul doesn't distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn't. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.