Good Quotes

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

It's always good to be underestimated.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.