How To Be Good Quotes

Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.

To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you’ll be fine.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

Roads are long; make them short with a good company!

If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!

In hard times, gold is a good friend and good friend is gold!

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.