Top 100 Good Person Quotes
#1. Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#3. People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.
Angelina Jolie
#4. One can be a good person and still believe that certain behaviors are a sin. I personally think lying is a sin, but some of my best friends are liars.
Tom King
#5. When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.
Tracy Morgan
#6. A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
Alexis Stewart
#7. Mistakes from the past can never be repaired. Do your best in the present, to be a good person in the future.
Sylvia L'Namira
#8. Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
Steve Yzerman
#9. As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.
Gisele Bundchen
#10. To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
Brenda Song
#11. I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.
Anna Karina
#12. My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.
Lykke Li
#13. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
Peaches Geldof
#14. You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.
Richard Sherman
#15. On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."
Jon Ronson
#17. Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
David LaChapelle
#18. What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.
Sophia Bush
#19. I can't prove this but i can't prove
you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.
Bob Hicok
#20. Being a good person is like being a goal keeper,
No matter how many goals you save
People will remember only the one that U missed."
"THAT'S LIFE
Bilal Nasir Khan
#21. It is more important to be a good person than a good player.
Toni Nadal
#22. I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.
Jermaine O'Neal
#23. Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.
Bryant McGill
#24. A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
Miranda Kerr
#25. Twitter Terrorist, billionaire heir, ex-con, computer geek, bad boy - none of those terms came close to describing Kyle Rhodes. He was, simply, a good person, and a confident, intelligent man to boot, and she found that combination absolutely irresistible.
Julie James
#26. I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
Dan Harmon
#27. I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad.
Which begs the question ... how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad?
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#28. I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.
Clarence Thomas
#29. Not to just say you need to be a good person - but, better, find the good that you already have in yourself and don't deny that, don't let the world talk you out of the good things because it's not hip or cool. Sooner or later, you have to live with yourself.
Martha Williamson
#30. What's so cool about God and our government is that you can make a mistake, and they will forgive you if you just a good person and doing right.
Tom Lister Jr.
#31. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
Henry Rollins
#33. Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.
Michael Josephson
#34. I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
Aaliyah
#35. If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot.
Larry Winget
#36. A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
#37. The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.
Rebecca Goldstein
#38. I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.
Lisa Kudrow
#39. It is much easier to choose to be a good person than to think good thoughts.
Haim Shapira
#40. If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.
Ben Kingsley
#41. Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.
Peter Kreeft
#42. I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.
Kristen Stewart
#44. It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
Jamaica Kincaid
#45. What scares me least? The Afterlife. Really. Who cares? I'm going to be a good person no matter what is supposed to happen after I die.
Sherman Alexie
#46. live the life you want to live. Your Gender is not important, it's not important who you love or who you don't. It's important if you're a good person or not
Conchita Wurst
#47. Life is going to test you in ways it never has before. Don't let your future change the good person that you are or make forget who you are.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#48. He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who thought he was a good person really could act in such a cowardly way towards a friend.
John Boyne
#49. But the Beast was a good person ... the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.
Karen Kingsbury
#50. In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for
-Samar Sudha
Samar Sudha
#51. A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
Anton Chekhov
#52. I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.
Miranda Kerr
#53. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be - *that* was magical.
Ransom Riggs
#54. For some reason, I immediately thought about how my parents had always been especially fond of Mavis, and here was this moment when I understood exactly why: she was a good person. It felt so good to realize how smart my parents had been all along.
Mindy Kaling
#55. I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
Carly Simon
#56. I'm a bad person, like you, in the same way that you are a good person, like me.
Bob Ong
#57. There is drama in both kinds of love: the kind of love that makes you want to become a good person and the kind of love that makes you want to become a bad person.
Yokoyari Mengo
#58. What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"
Epictetus
#59. I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
Emma Watson
#60. Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
Timothy Keller
#61. When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Confucius
#62. She was a good person," I said. "One of the best.
C.D. Reiss
#64. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
Matthew Quick
#66. I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
Lady Starlight
#67. I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person.
John Green
#68. The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.
Eugene H. Peterson
#69. The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
A. J. Jacobs
#70. I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.
Nick Hornby
#71. I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind.
Cullen Bunn
#72. Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.
Jim Butcher
#73. The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Thomas Perry
#74. Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.
John Wooden
#75. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
#76. I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.
Miranda Kerr
#77. I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.
Gabrielle Zevin
#78. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
Chogyam Trungpa
#79. I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
Curt Schilling
#80. No matter how much we lie to ourselves about what a good person we are inside, sooner or later, we are all someone else's nightmare. Let us hope, for all our sakes, that history judges us with far kinder labels than what we've used to judge each other.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
Penn Jillette
#82. Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Sholom Rokeach
#83. A good person always find the goodness in a bad person.
Debasish Mridha
#84. I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
Alicia Keys
#85. Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
Joan Jett
#86. I'm sick. It's true. It isn't going to go away. All my life, I've thought that if I just worked hard enough, it would. I've always thought that if I just pulled myself together, I'd be a good person, a calm person, a person like everyone else.
Marya Hornbacher
#87. People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.
Max Lucado
#88. My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake?
I think you're a good person.
Svetlana Chmakova
#90. Being a good person is partially subjective, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It's whatever we deem acceptable, whatever we find ourselves worthy of.
Kim Holden
#91. If you have a lair then you are probably not a good person.
Demetri Martin
#92. Hey girls, you're beautiful. Whether you're a size 32 or a size 18. As long as you're a good person. As long as you respect others and yourself. Don't listen to those fashion magazines. Hey girls, you're beautiful
Gerard Way
#93. Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.
Phil Laut
#94. You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. She was a good person. She didn't deserve to die."
"I don't think it works that way.
Beth Revis
#96. I would like a child to grow up to have a happy life and make a contribution to society. I don't mean to be a big scientist or something like that. How many people can do that? I think if you live a happy life and are a good person, that is a contribution to society.
Leslie T. Chang
#97. Can I be a good person and spend that much money on overpriced consumer goods? I don't know. But I do know this: I'd be no good without them.
Nick Hornby
#98. It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
Jenny Holzer
#99. Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.
Beverley Mitchell
#100. You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
Sean Hannity