The Good Quotes

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

I've never really been about looking good - I'm just bad at that stuff.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

Good Day. We are privileged to live another day in this magnificent world. Today you will be tested.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told that they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good.

Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

There's not enough good things in the world.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

There is good and bad in everyone.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

"Happy" feels good... I just like when stuff feels good.