The Good Quotes

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

Do not be afraid to go into uncharted territories. You might find some pretty good things there.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

You make your Own luck.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.