Top 100 It Is Good Quotes
#1. Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.
Pope Benedict XVI
#2. You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
Elizabeth Edwards
#3. Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
Olivier Theyskens
#4. Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly. "What's she know about such things, anyway? I tell you it is good, and healthy, too," - this last as an afterthought.
Jack London
#5. It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.
Joanna Macy
#6. It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
Abdu'l- Baha
#7. It is good for a man not to touch a woman...
Anonymous
#8. 25The LORD is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. 26So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the LORD.
Anonymous
#9. Nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.
John Calvin
#10. In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. It is good to know something of the customs of different people in order to judge more soundly of our own, and so that we might not think that all that which is contrary to our own ways be ridiculous and contrary to reason, as those who have seen nothing have the habit of doing.
Rene Descartes
#12. You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.
Alphonsus Liguori
#13. I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.
Usain Bolt
#15. It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
Alison Croggon
#16. On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case ...
Mother Teresa
#17. The simple style is bad for the savage because he does worse than to obtain the luxuries of life; it is good for the philosopher because he does better than to work for them. The question is whether you can bear freedom ...
Henry David Thoreau
#18. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Vincent Van Gogh
#19. Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Agache
#20. Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.
Mike Kruger
#21. I have come to differentiate not at all between what is spiritual and the rest of life. There is only Life, all of it is good and the more I am aware of this in every moment, the more my spirit comes alive.
Jacob Nordby
#22. This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.
Natalie Goldberg
#23. There are two souls in a body of a human these souls are GOD & DEVIL.if u r going to do any work it is good or ither it is bad always listen ur GOD's soul.
Hoshiyar
#24. It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
Samuel Johnson
#25. I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.
Louise Hay
#26. It is good netiquette to use domains that do not allow spam, hate, or violence.
David Chiles
#27. 9 I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, n for it is good, in the presence of the o godly.
Anonymous
#28. It is good death
That puts an end to evil death and dies.
Wallace Stevens
#29. It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
Rudolf Arnheim
#30. It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things.
David Chiles
#31. The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music..
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
#32. For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Charles Dickens
#33. Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.
Ralph Levy
#34. It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.
Auliq Ice
#35. It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.
Charles Baudelaire
#36. It is good people who make good places.
Anna Sewell
#37. It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Walter Bagehot
#38. Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.
Prentice Mulford
#39. It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Matthew Henry
#40. The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
Sean Covey
#41. While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#44. Because every family is a distinct cultural unit, it is good that our methods differ. God did not intend for us to walk in lockstep with one another. We ought to rejoice in a common commitment to biblical principles and in the variety of methods God's people employ.
Nancy Wilson
#45. In every Art it is good to have a master.
[In every art it is good to have a master.]
George Herbert
#46. Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
Andrew Thomas
#47. It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.
E. Lockhart
#48. The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.
Christopher Pike
#49. Desire seizes that man whose soul has been brushed by another man's kiss and, holding him by the collar says: This is your existence -- and it is natural, it is positive, it is good, and it is spinning a new way to be.
Douglas Sadownick
#50. It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
Andrew Hill
#52. I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#53. We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:
Peter Kreeft
#54. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
#55. Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed ...
Hendrik Lenstra
#57. He says that it is good luck to rub the head of a dwarf," Haldon said after an exchange with the guard in his own tongue.
Tyrion forced himself to smile at the man. "Tell him that it is even better luck to suck on a dwarf's cock.
George R R Martin
#58. In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
Francis Bacon
#59. Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. The universe is a big and lonely place. We can do with all the neighbors we can get.
Anonymous
#60. It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
John Lyly
#61. It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
Robert Hass
#62. It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
J. C. Macaulay
#63. It is good to say something beautiful; it is even better to say something right; but saying a right thing beautifully, that is the best!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice ... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
Sophia Loren
#65. It is good to collect things, it is better to take walks.
Anatole France
#66. The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
Jim Elliot
#67. It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
Ray Bradbury
#68. It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
Neil Gaiman
#69. It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#70. Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant.
Aishah Madadiy
#71. You don't have to see it to love it. Just love it for it is good and that is love.
Christian Thogolith
#72. It is good to be taught even by an enemy
Ovid
#73. It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.
Steven J. Carroll
#74. Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.
John Wesley
#76. In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
Tullian Tchividjian
#77. If you are not discovered yet by the people, that is good, you can work better; if you are discovered already by the people, that is good, you can share your work better! It is good to be in the shadow, it is good to be in the light!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Sometimes it is good to listen and not say anything.
Bhagya Chandra
#79. If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.
Corrie Ten Boom
#80. Lamentations 3:26 - It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Rachelle Ayala
#81. It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.
Aldous Huxley
#82. It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.
John Steinbeck
#83. It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.
Caroline Ouellette
#84. It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#85. It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I
#86. There's a head inside the ball?" Surefire turned a shade paler along the edges of her face paint.
"It is good," Coatl responded. "Makes the ball lighter, bounce farther."
"You always want to get a head in the game," Raven added.
J.T. Bock
#87. I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
C.S. Lewis
#88. It is good to be married to an archeologist because the older you get the more interested he becomes in you. Agatha Christie
Shirley Bullock
#89. It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
#90. Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.
Polly Horvath
#91. It is good to be hurt once in a while..
Means emotions are still alive.. Means you can still love ,give, receive..
Just don't take the hurt too far..!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#92. It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is MUCH BETTER for the Word to get into us.
David J. Stewart
#93. One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#94. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.
H.G.Wells
#95. Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.
Eric Ludy
#96. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
Kenneth More
#97. I don't believe it is good to constantly deify war as if peace, which is the happiness and glory of the world, could be the shame of nations.
Lamartine
#98. It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most ... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
C.S. Lewis
#99. A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
Thomas Aquinas
#100. I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.
Agatha Christie
