Top 100 Good Key Quotes
#1. He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.
George Herbert
#2. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...
Richard Castle
#3. As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
Stephen King
#4. The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
Amish Tripathi
#5. One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
Raymond E. Feist
#6. 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
#8. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
Steve Goodier
#9. H = L + F + G
Dedicated to those of us in need of a mathematical equation to explain the key to happiness in life.
Simply put, it means Happiness = Look for Good
Ie. Look for the good in life ... the silver lining in each of our experiences.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#10. Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#11. The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.
Richard Carlson
#12. Samantha, what have I told you?' demanded Mr. Green.
'That I should be seen, and not heard, until I turn eighteen. When I can say 'Good-bye, I'm returning my key' before moving out of home.' chanted Samantha.
R.A. Spratt
#13. I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
Paula Radcliffe
#14. The bad news: There is no key to the universe. The good news: It was never locked.
Swami Beyondananda
#15. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
Emily Oster
#16. The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.
Bill Richardson
#17. Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
Usain Bolt
#18. Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
Colleen Houck
#19. I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.
Marion Bartoli
#20. Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
James C. Collins
#21. There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.
Tori Amos
#22. Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.
Robert Jordan
#23. The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
Ellen Key
#24. The key in shooting any good round is to give yourself some chances and, tomorrow, if my swinging is feeling any good, I'll have some chances. But, if it's not, then I'll have to give myself those 15- to 20-footers and hope I can make those.
Tiger Woods
#25. I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.
Jeremih
#26. The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
James C. Collins
#27. What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.
Stephen Fry
#28. I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.
Tess Gerritsen
#29. Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!
Hiromi
#31. One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.
Mark Victor Hansen
#32. Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want.
Adelyn Birch
#33. To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
Zadie Smith
#34. He swallowed, and his voice was a bit rough, but he was "You know, I think moving is key to this whole fucking thing."
"This does t feel good?" Gavin kissed under Jamie's ear while rubbing circles around his nipples with a hard palm.
"What is this, Fucking For Slackers?
K.A. Mitchell
#35. Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.
Amy Dickinson
#36. The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
Don Kardong
#37. A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.
Asa Don Brown
#38. A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
Elton John
#40. been rounded up during a raid.2 We were lucky: Our neighbors, who were good people, had a key to our house, and they took everything they could carry and hid it for us. After the war, we got back our photographs, a set of cutlery, a figurine, and a clock.
Marcel Prins
#41. Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?
Jillian Barberie
#42. The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
Jeff Kinney
#43. On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
Tommy Shaw
#45. I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
Earl Campbell
#46. I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.
Ezra Taft Benson
#47. Free press key to good governance
Anonymous
#48. We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#49. The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.
Adrian Rogers
#50. The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.
Michael P. Naughton
#51. I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
Brian Eno
#52. The key to making sure your credit stays good is paying the bill on time. If you are paying the balance off even if there is something on the card in recent purchases, you are good.
Michelle Singletary
#53. I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Uzo Aduba
#54. Don't be afraid to screw up ! ... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time
Robben Ford
#55. Breath mints and Chapstick are key if you want to have a good kiss.
Brett Davern
#56. I placed my hands on his chest and took a step away. "Sometimes I really don't like you."
"Key word to what you just said is sometimes, meaning not all the time, meaning most of the time you like me, and that's good enough for me.
Joddie Zeng
#57. The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?
Tyler Cowen
#58. I have come to believe that forgiveness is the key to survival. It does no good to see everything as a struggle between opposing factions. Few things are that simple.
Elliott Holt
#59. The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.
Ronald Reagan
#60. The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.
Joe Gibbs
#61. It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way.
Jennifer Beals
#62. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.
Claire Cook
#63. In the joy of others lies our own,
In the progress of others rests our own,
In the good of others abides our own,
Know this to be the key to peace and happiness
Pramukh Swami Maharaj
#64. Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.
Jean Chatzky
#65. You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.
John Elway
#66. I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.
Geoff Johns
#67. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
Sarah Dessen
#68. Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment
it only makes me work harder.
Missy Giove
#69. Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple.
Jeff Lemire
#71. I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley ...
Steve Coogan
#72. The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
Leo Tolstoy
#73. Potential is the good of life
action the secret key.
Deron Williams
#74. I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
Simon Van Booy
#75. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
Marina Abramovic
#76. People make grave assumptions if they do not know what we are thinking or feeling. I now know love is not the only key ingredient in a good relationship.
Sukree Boodram
#77. The key to walking around places where you're not supposed to be is to look like you're too important to be interrupted. Most people are non-confrontational by nature, and if you give them a good reason not to challenge you, they won't. I
Craig Schaefer
#78. Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
Tyler Perry
#79. Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.
Alex Turner
#80. A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.
LeAnn Rimes
#82. I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
Abraham Verghese
#83. I use Meaningful Beauty for my daily skincare regime. The system helps to restore, protect, revitalize and renew my skin. Using it daily along with avoiding the sun, not smoking, drinking a lot of water, and getting enough sleep is key to looking and feeling good at any age!
Cindy Crawford
#84. The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.
Tehyi Hsieh
#85. The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.
Will Leitch
#86. What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.
Oprah Winfrey
#87. Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.
Esther Hicks
#88. It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.
Frederick Lenz
#89. It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.
Herbert Hainer
#90. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
Malcolm Gladwell
#91. The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.
Sully Tarnish
#92. Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
Shaun Tan
#93. That record became very key for me, not just for what it said, and for how great it was, but also because I heard other people who could make good music without being any good at music. It gave me hope.
Legs McNeil
#94. Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant?
Natalia Marx
#95. If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
Felicity Jones
#96. I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
Jonathan Kellerman
#97. We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
Trip Hawkins
#98. I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support
Alexis De Tocqueville
#99. What happened?" I asked. "What did you say?"
Roger put the key in the ignition and looked over at me. "I told her good-bye," he said. Then he started the car and put in in gear, and we headed out.
Morgan Matson
#100. In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are ... show them some love.
Matt Kemp
