More Good Quotes

#1. There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Alan Dean Foster

#2. Rejection makes you uglier, acceptance makes you, all the more, good-looking!

Kamini Arichandran

#3. There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

Ray Dalio

#4. You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Jerome Lawrence

#5. Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

James Cook

#6. I am a girl who loves life and loves people and I find that in this life there are more good people than bad and that is who I choose to surround myself with.

Ruby Gettinger

#7. My primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States. From my first day in office to my last, especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind.

Hillary Clinton

#8. We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

Hillary Clinton

#9. Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Marvin Olasky

#10. A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

Yvon Chouinard

#11. There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. 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

#13. My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Marian McPartland

#14. Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#15. I am no longer surprised by anything and I feel no distress at seeing my complete helplessness. On the contrary, I glory in it and every day I expect to discover fresh flaws in myself. In fact, this revelation of my nothingness does me much more good than being enlightened on matters of faith.

John Beevers

#16. A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.

Ibn Rajab

#17. I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

Matthew McConaughey

#18. I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world.

David Brin

#19. There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His

Maj Sjowall

#20. Brainstorming sounds like a great idea, but it doesn't work. Dozens of studies have demonstrated this conclusively. People produce more good ideas - twice as many - alone than they do together. One problem with brainstorming is

Eric Weiner

#21. Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

Galen

#22. The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

#23. However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Joseph Butler

#24. The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC ... if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Charlie Munger

#25. I realized that my money would do vastly more good for others than it could for me and decided to make a commitment to donating to the most effective charities I could find. Many people contacted me asking how they could do this as well, and so I set up giving what we can.

Toby Ord

#26. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

Herman Melville

#27. Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

Austin Kleon

#28. In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash.

Jonathan Auxier

#29. Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

Pope Francis

#30. Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

Craig Newmark

#31. I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

Walter Mosley

#32. So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston S. Churchill

#33. I have seen many a face that was more good-looking - never one that looked half so good.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#34. Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#36. There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Michael Nesmith

#37. One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

John Adams

#38. I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

Anthony Kiedis

#39. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

#40. Muslims believe that salvation is a matter of doing more good deeds than bad.

Nabeel Qureshi

#41. In buying Fairtrade products, you're at best giving very small amounts of money to people in comparatively well-off countries. You'd do considerably more good by buying cheaper goods and donating the money you save to one of the cost-effective charities mentioned in the previous chapter.

William MacAskill

#42. If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#43. More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful' - much more.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#44. As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Stephen Richards

#45. If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.

William J. Clinton

#46. Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#47. We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

Hillary Clinton

#48. We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.'

'For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones.

Isaac Asimov

#49. There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Orson Scott Card

#50. I can do more good outside of prison ... This country is worth dying for.

Edward Snowden

#51. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Plautus

#52. I've found that the men worth fucking are far more good-natured about the female body in its varied forms than is generally acknowledged. 'Naked and smiling' is one male friend's only (physical) requirement for a lover.

Cheryl Strayed

#53. I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.

Eric Ries

#54. Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.

John Stuart Mill

#55. It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#56. That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention.

Dean Koontz

#57. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Brenda Ueland

#58. On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,

Robert Hughes

#59. Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

Jochen Zeitz

#60. When we're struggling, we don't need a book in our hands. We need the right words in our minds. When things are tough, a mantra does more good than a manifesto.

Eric Greitens

#61. When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

John Pomfret

#62. As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Etty Hillesum

#63. I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Marie Curie

#64. Some good came of Eureka. More good could come of it. Could the game help me? Could it help anyone?

Scott Kelly

#65. But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Shia Labeouf

#66. You can do a lot more good with money than without it.

Mark Victor Hansen

#67. I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#68. The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

Imelda Staunton

#69. There might be some weirdness mixed in with being admired like that, but I think there's more good.

Cassandra Clare

#70. By learning to sew, you give your clothes several more good years of wear and tear.

Grace Collins

#71. If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

Stuart Pearce

#72. You can do more good by being good than any other way.

John Wooden

#73. Twitter is a place where I can let people know what type of person I am, and I got some good feedback from it. More good than bad, so it's a good outlet to let people know who I am.

Kevin Durant

#74. But a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Jane Austen

#75. Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.

Michael Jackson

#76. A sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to

Jane Austen

#77. Develop a habit of being grateful and thankful for everything good in your life, and you'll find you are actually opening the door for more good to come into your life.

Idowu Koyenikan

#78. There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

Margaret Way

#79. If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.

Chris Evans

#80. Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

Max Lucado

#81. Looking for honest ways to lift one another would ... be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

Neal A. Maxwell

#82. The more you give, the more good things come to you.

Robert Muller

#83. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

Rhonda Byrne

#84. The cops drive by to do some more good deeds
A young black male spits a sunflower seed
in the air.

Dred Scott

#85. Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#86. Better than Medicine A glass of bitter beer or pale ale, taken with the principal meal of the day, does more good, and less harm, than any medicine the physician can prescribe. Dr Carpenter in The Scottish Review, (1750)

Hugh Morrison

#87. I am available to more good than I have ever experienced, imagined, or realized before in my life.

Michael Beckwith

#88. We can only try to live our lives with enough joy and passion that when our time is finished we leave behind more good memories than regrets.

P.C. Cast

#89. We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

James D. Watson

#90. With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics
we need more good ideas. We don't need more point-scoring
we need more problem-solving.

Barack Obama

#91. Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Zadie Smith

#92. I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.

Matthew Weiner

#93. You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

Jon Stewart

#94. We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

Deval Patrick

#95. No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Solon

#96. The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

Bill Vaughan

#97. I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

Timothy Olyphant

#98. Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.

Harold George Koenig

#99. The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

Ted Turner

#100. More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

Andy Serkis