The Good Quotes

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

I'm not a method guy. I can't be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can't stand to be surrounded by morons.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

Some people are immune to good advice.

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.