How To Be Good Quotes

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

The most important things is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

Any day you wake up and the ground isn't shaking is a good day.

I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-.

It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the season, ... You learn from that.

I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.