Good Quotes

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a...

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for gra...

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental an...

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of o...

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everythi...

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me go...

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author hims...

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. A...

I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most...

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adve...

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, e...

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Love of God," he said slowly, searching for words, "is not alwaysthe same as love of good, I wish it...

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good ...

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and th...

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you ...

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death i...

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...

Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and ob...

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's ...

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going t...

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shall...

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of...

There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about h...

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the wat...

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a...

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all t...

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e...

I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do som...

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look...

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor to...

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that the...

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy ...

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent worl...

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not,” r...

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-""She's foul enough to be one...""...

...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill...

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I w...

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovati...

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, ...

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ...

You can't take good health for granted.

Every good painter paints what he is.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mosso...

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blan...

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how ...

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated ...

He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and...

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lo...

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses ...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party po...

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had...

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks ...

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas...

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and ...

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good...

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I ...

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If y...

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competi...

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused chi...

My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competi...

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the ti...