How To Be Good Quotes

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

A bottle of wine was good company.

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

Good is always a good thing.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

It's a good time to be CM Punk right now.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

They’re good people. I have a lot of Jewish friends.