I'd rather be good than lucky.

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

— David Easton

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

— Colman McCarthy

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

— Hermann Hesse

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very…

— Hany Abu-Assad

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

— Hanif Kureishi

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just…

— Jennifer Garner

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

— Paula Abdul

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

— Harry S. Truman

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

— Paul Arden

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are…

— Rush Limbaugh

The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

— Randy Anderson

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at…

— David Chase

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

— Jesse Jackson

“Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is…

— Catherine Marshall