Good Quotes

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
Morgan Freeman

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
Tori Amos

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Jay Leno

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Thales

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

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 other things.
Howard Gardner

It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Spurgeon

Each of us bears his own Hell.
Virgil

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

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
J. C. Watts

It's always good to be working.
Ja Rule

No man's credit is as good as his money.
Ed Howe

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

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James Fenimore Cooper

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Clay well, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball.
James Lafferty

It is good to love the unknown.

Good council has no price.
Giuseppe Mazzini

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasgow

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
Jayne Mansfield

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them.
Mandy Moore

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
Fulton J. Sheen

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
Jeff Buckley

Is a good man and the right man for the job.
Ted Nugent

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
Jim Cramer

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

We finally feel like we have a pretty good hockey club here and I wanted to be a part of that, simple as that

Yet true it is, as cow chews cud, And trees at spring do yield forth bud, Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good.
Thomas Tusser

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
Thornton Wilder

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.