Top 100 Be Good Quotes
#1. When you're younger you're so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you're in love, can't live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase the bad sex hoping something happened to the man over night and the next time it'll be good.
Jill Nelson
#2. That's what it all meant. Be good. Be kind. Do whatever you can to help people. Be the best that you can be.
Simple. Obvious. But true.
Aaron Starmer
#3. Buildings should be good neighbours.
Paul Thiry
#4. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
#5. I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'
Jesse Ventura
#6. Everything a Good Person Says or Does is not necessary to be Good
Venkat Gandhi
#7. I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him ... to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good ...
Brian Jacques
#9. It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
B.C. Forbes
#10. When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.
Jonathan Galassi
#11. Be good to others, if you wish the world to be good with you.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#12. Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.
Dennis Miller
#13. There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
Aristotle.
#14. What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I'm not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
Andy Couturier
#15. Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
Chris Christie
#16. You are the reason I want to be good, the reason I have seen the evil in my father. You make me good. You make me whole
Rebecca Ethington
#17. You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.
Susanna Hoffs
#18. There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#19. A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.
Dorothy Day
#20. I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.
Leslie Mann
#21. Water will wear away stone, but it won't cook supper. Everything has its own strengths. Said with enough irony, it could also imply that since the gods surely had a purpose for everyone the person in question must be good for something, but the speaker couldn't fathom what it might be.
Ann Leckie
#22. Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.
Simon Cowell
#23. A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.
Cy Young
#24. I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.
John Ciardi
#25. Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.
Marianne Williamson
#26. I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.
Steve Coogan
#28. If at the end of the day the people of our city escape, it will be good.But if somehow our democracy remains standing - it will be even better.
Boaz Yakin
#29. A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. I think $100 at the end of the year doesn't mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii.
John Higgins
#31. I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.
Andy Murray
#32. I'm not responsible for what other people think I am able to do; I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.
Richard Feynman
#33. It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and more. That wouldn't necessarily be good for Eddie, or anyone else in the band.
Stone Gossard
#35. Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.
A. Lee Martinez
#36. Knowledge or religion means to be good and to do good, to worship God or to work for God without having the living presence of God.
Witness Lee
#37. Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.
Jenni Young
#38. This isn't going to be good, is it?" Jenna whispered.
"Maybe the special purpose involves us eating brownies?" I suggested. "Or, like, wrangling unicorns? That may actually be possible."
Jenna studied me. "You must be really freaked out.
Rachel Hawkins
#39. If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.
Frans De Waal
#40. He's an Imago," Adam repeated. "They kill humans, or use them as blood banks."
"You speak as if humans do not do that to each other," Rekesh commented. "Not all Imagoes choose to be evil, as not all humans choose to be good. ~Rekesh and Adam
Annabell Cadiz
#41. We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
Tahar Rahim
#42. No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Sometimes being scared of something can be good because it can give you strength. A great example for me would be acting in English! Basically, whenever I'm scared of a project, I know it's worth it.
Stephanie Sigman
#44. The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.
Billy Campbell
#45. I could spend a whole day at a spa. I'd get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.
Dule Hill
#46. I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.
Nolan North
#47. Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
Terry Gilliam
#48. Well, it is not a good world
nobody can say that it is, save those who wilfully blind themselves to facts. How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? The wonder is not that it is so bad, but that there should be any good left in it.
H. Rider Haggard
#50. We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
Lawrence Eagleburger
#51. Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.
Adam Levine
#53. I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'
Sebastian Stan
#54. One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.
Gregory Maguire
#55. Their intentions may be good, but their judgment isn't.
Claudia Gray
#57. Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia."
Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.
Simon R. Green
#58. There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.
Fernand Point
#59. Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
Simon Sinek
#60. It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'
Amelia Warner
#61. You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.
Larry McMurtry
#62. It's hard to be good at anything. If you're passionate, the chances are that you will find a job that will make you happy.
Arthur Rankin Jr.
#63. Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.
Teresa Wright
#64. This better be good, cat. You're stupid Summoning spell could've killed me! What is it you want?-Meghan Chase to Grimalkin.
Julie Kagawa
#65. To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something
Henry Ford
#66. Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.
Helen Wills Moody
#67. Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right
Christian Louboutin
#68. There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.
Joel Osteen
#70. Don't let doing enough be good enough.
Ron Kaufman
#71. Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#72. Moral virtue is a mean ... between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; ... it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
Aristotle.
#73. Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
Robert Metcalfe
#74. I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#75. The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Paul Bloom
#76. I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.
Owen Wister
#77. Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,.
Sam Brownback
#79. Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.
George Orwell
#80. I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.
Margaret Atwood
#81. He met her challenging gaze. "You really have no idea what is good for you," he said as he caged her against the side of the pickup with a hand on each side of her.
I used to think you would be good for me," she said quietly, her voice rough with emotion.
B. J. Daniels
#82. I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of drives you forward when you know what you're working on is going to be fun. You'll go through all manner of discomfort to get the shot.
Michael Chiklis
#83. Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.
Steven Pinker
#84. The world belongs to us, the wise ones, we declare ... will we be pirates or captains, slumlords or godparents of time? Will we burn the furniture for heat or be good tenants?
Carl Safina
#85. Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.
Robin Olds
#86. We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
Peter Singer
#87. I just found this world a hard place to be good in,' says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
Nick Cave
#88. Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
Bob McDonnell
#89. Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
Phillips Brooks
#90. I wished upon every damned star in the sky for a second chance.
For something I could do to truly make it right when I'd done her so fucking wrong.
To be good enough for this girl who was so obviously created for me.
A.L. Jackson
#91. Can I tell you that in my eyes not even God would be good enough to command you?
Kele Moon
#92. A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
Helen Gurley Brown
#93. Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.
Richard Dawkins
#94. Even when I try to be good, I am bad. Even when I try to do right by you, I only hurt you. [ ... ] Even when I try to create, I destroy.
Nina G. Jones
#95. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
#96. Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
Isabella Rossellini
#97. It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
Jeff Lindsay
#98. If you see only goodness in people, then people will be good.
Debasish Mridha
#99. You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you ... all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them.
- Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace
Brian Jacques
#100. Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
