Good Quotes

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.