Be Good Quotes

1067 Be Good quotes by 840 unique authors

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this… — C.S. Lewis
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger
There is no such thing as being good to your wife. — Gertrude Stein
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good… — Robert Breault
Terrible is the temptation to be good. — Bertolt Brecht
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ... — Andy Rooney
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. — Robert Browning
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted,… — Lucy Larcom
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the… — Orson Scott Card
He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with… — B.K.S. Iyengar
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad. — Lin Yutang
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better. — Maurice Maeterlinck
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character. — Roger Ebert
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. — Karl Barth
I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle. — Laura Marling
My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep… — Michael Madsen
There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is. — Alessandro Nivola
There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which… — Alessandro Nivola
Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses. — Richard Neal
I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up. — Kaitlin Olson
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more… — Herbert Hoover
Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting. — Diane Lane
When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me… — Diane Lane
Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive,… — Will Oldham

Who Wrote These Be Good Quotes

840 authors contributed a total of 1,067 Be Good Quotes, led by these top contributors: