For Good Quotes

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.

Every day is a good day, and if you don't believe me, just try missing one of them.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

Good luck has its storms.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.