How To Be Good Quotes

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The real genres: good and bad.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

The best defense is a good story.

I always had good students.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.

Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.

There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and your life when you have it. It is well worth having, and it is certainly miserable not to have it.