Good Quotes

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Every good painter paints what he is.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.