The Good Quotes

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more of the things you can be grateful for.

Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

Stupid people always ignored good advice

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.