Be good Quote by Lin Yutang Download Open image “We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.” — Lin Yutang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Be good Impossible People Should Society
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations. — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
We live in such a world now that we don't even know if being good is better than being bad. — Mayma Skip Copy Share Image
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
Everyone present on this earth is good anyway, now thats a different thing that some are good at being good and rest at being… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Good people cannot fully compensate for bad process, but they can mitigate some of its worst tendencies. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps… — Mary Browne Copy Share Image
I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are. — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things. — Randy Anderson Copy Share Image