Top 100 Good Being Quotes
#1. It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
Tom Wilkinson
#2. I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.
Michael J. Fox
#3. Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn.
Bryce C. Anderson
#4. It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.
Sergio Martinez
#5. What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.
What our contempts doth often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,
By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself. She's good, being gone.
The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
William Shakespeare
#7. If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
Thomas C. Foster
#8. It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
Donatella Versace
#9. Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Joseph Butler
#10. It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.
Jessica Capshaw
#11. Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.
Hermann Hesse
#12. Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
Daniel Radcliffe
#13. I'm easy. Very easy. I'll tell you why I am easy. If someone is no good, I get rid of them. It is no good being tough on somebody who can't do the job. If he can do the job, then there is no point in being tough with him.
Harry Triguboff
#14. It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.
Robert Greene
#15. It's good being yhe king. Knowing that you put in 100 percent to be where your at right now.
Alex Cabrera
#16. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.
Frank Luntz
#17. It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
John Lydon
#18. Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
#20. Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!
Jessica Simpson
#21. I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.
Ozzy Osbourne
#23. It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#24. The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
David Hume
#25. The tortures occur, if they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't.
C.S. Lewis
#26. All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan
#27. This feels good, being back in Michigan ... You know, the trees are the right height.
Mitt Romney
#28. It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.
Roger Moore
#29. It was exhausting, trying to be perfect. It feels good being able to be just me.
Kristen Ashley
#30. Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true good.
Blaise Pascal
#31. It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.
Mason Cooley
#32. 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 people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
Alan Furst
#33. Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!
Wilder Penfield
#34. When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.
Natalia Vodianova
#35. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd
#36. We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.
Jerry Jones
#37. Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
Mark McKinnon
#38. Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.
Erin Heatherton
#39. Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.
Melody Beattie
#40. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
Seanan McGuire
#41. There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.
Robert M. Edsel
#42. It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.
Denene Millner
#43. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H.M. Ward
#44. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
Bruce Dern
#45. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner
#46. Tapping into the aether, well, it was like coming home at the end of the day and finally being able to take a bra off.
It was that good.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#47. Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.
Stephen Jay Gould
#48. I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#49. What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it?
Thomas Merton
#50. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
Drew Carey
#51. Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.
Gina Barreca
#52. This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
David Benioff
#53. What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.
Zedd
#54. I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Cindy Crawford
#55. Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; being generally favoured.
Alexander McCall Smith
#56. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#57. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
#58. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but I believe that one of the key factors in being a good sister wife is having the ability to see the needs of another sister wife and considering her needs more important than your own.
Meri Brown
#59. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.
Tori Amos
#60. It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.
Aristotle.
#61. I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
Rachel Boston
#62. I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.
Milo Ventimiglia
#63. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot
#64. When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.
George Clooney
#65. It's funny being the big news every day - and the good news every day.
Charlie Adam
#66. Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
Siobhan Davies
#67. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.
Johnny Depp
#68. I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
Jeff Garlin
#69. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.
Kelly Williams Brown
#70. I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
Brandon Stanton
#72. I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
Vanessa Minnillo
#73. What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
Duncan D. Hunter
#74. Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
David Chang
#75. It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
Robin Trower
#76. In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
Chuck Todd
#77. The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.
Gal Gadot
#78. Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.
Gitty Daneshvari
#79. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#80. Angry is good.
Angry is better than being tearful
E.L. James
#81. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.
Aeriel Miranda
#82. I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.
Alan Arkin
#83. Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
Mickey Rourke
#84. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#85. People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.
Denzel Washington
#86. She loved him for doing things like calling her such a goof. He said it with such warmth and affection, as though her being silly meant something good, instead of how her other boyfriends had felt about it - that being goofy or silly made her a scattered flake who didn't fit into their career plans.
Charlotte Stein
#87. Ah. I suppose." Oh, this was deeply unpleasant. Being trapped into meaningless small talk with an idiot had never intrigued him, even on a good day. Which this wasn't.
Morgan Rhodes
#88. Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.
Dennis Green
#89. I don't know if I'm embarrassed because I think it's a funny show, but I could imagine there being a snootiness about it, but I do find 'The Big Bang Theory' very funny. I think that's a good show. I think it's fun, I like the actors; I think they're all doing a great job.
Stephen Merchant
#90. My husband doesn't have to try to add to my comedy he just does being himself and saying & doing the things he does. We have a good friendship & I think couples can relate to our dynamic and sometimes out lack of dynamics too.
Heather McDonald
#91. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
Helen Fielding
#92. Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement...
Nancee Cain
#93. (1)BEING A POET
is like opening a car door
& exposing yourself.
(2)BEING A GOOD POET
is like opening the door
& exposing the passenger
as well.
Chocolate Waters
#94. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok
#95. Sometimes things seem too good to be true.
Keke Palmer
#96. It is hard to tell whether he's being honest or following the high school commandment of Thou shalt not show thy uncoolness by openly caring about something, which I have never been good at.
Anna Breslaw
#97. I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.
Brittany Snow
#98. One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
Steve Kanaly
#99. It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
Manasa Rao
#100. Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.
Etienne Gilson
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