Good Quotes

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.