Be Good Quotes

1067 Be Good quotes by 840 unique authors

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being… — Rick Rubin
Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is… — Sylvia Browne
I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once I get it,… — Kid Cudi
It is better to be good than to be original, — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that… — Wallace Stegner
That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man — Charlie Flynn
Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels… — Gael Greene
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious… — Ansel Adams
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not… — John Foster Dulles
I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long. — Edward Abbey
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good… — Patrick Henry
There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage… — Finley Peter Dunne
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you… — Helen Fielding
And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. — Roddy Doyle
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad… — Alan Furst
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. — Elizabeth Jane Howard
If that hideousness came here [to the U.S.], it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals-they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway.… — Ingrid Newkirk
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be… — George MacDonald
I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but… — Shelia Burrell
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in… — Howard Gardner

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