How To Be Good Quotes

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

A good film is also a documentary

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

Hunger is good discipline.

Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share the Good News of the Savior with a hurting child

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.

He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

I prefer to give money to the person who's provided the good service. But I never tip at hotels, I think they overcharge anyway. But anything which is value for money will get my vote.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.