Top 100 Quotes About Being A Good Person
#1. Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.
Erin Heatherton
#2. Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.
Bryant McGill
#3. Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet.
Shannon L. Alder
#4. I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#5. Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.
Susan Wiggs
#6. It wants to focus on being a good person, not just a barely not horrible one.
Allie Brosh
#7. How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#8. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one's appetites.
Paul Bloom
#9. Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement
Michael Josephson
#10. I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
Chelsea Clinton
#11. Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.
A. Lee Martinez
#12. I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
Julius Erving
#13. I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bitterness and disappointment.
Karin Rahbek
#14. The only day you truly wish to spend being a good person is your birthday.
Pratik Akkawar
#15. Being a good person and helping others succeed even when you don't personally benefit is the undercurrent that powers social media networking.
Tom Martin
#16. Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself.
Stephanie Perkins
#18. Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
David LaChapelle
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
Joan Jett
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
Chris Hemsworth
#27. Being a good person and fair person is very important in life, I think.
Guler Sabanci
#28. Being a good person is a very important part of my identity, but being a genuinely good person is time-consuming and complicated.
Allie Brosh
#29. I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
R. Kelly
#30. Cameron made me come. Something about being a good person.
Abigail Roux
#31. Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
Albert Einstein
#32. I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things.
John Green
#34. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.
Kelly Williams Brown
#35. 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
#36. Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
Brandon Sanderson
#38. When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.
Frank Iero
#39. Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
#40. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou
#41. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
Amy Sedaris
#42. Where we learned we could make each other laugh, and sometimes that's all you need to know about a person to know that being friends is a good idea.
Sara Bareilles
#43. I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Lady Gaga
#44. Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
Felicity Huffman
#45. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.
McCall Hoyle
#46. Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.
Sarah Paulson
#47. What is more, I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter much. Far more important is that they be a good human being. I
Dalai Lama XIV
#48. I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.
Mary McCormack
#49. It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
Rebecca West
#50. It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.
Antonia Fraser
#51. Be a good human being, a
warmhearted, affectionate person.
That is my fundamental belief.
Dalai Lama
#52. A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.
Jed Diamond
#53. What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
Erykah Badu
#54. Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
Reese Witherspoon
#55. A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#56. I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.
Narada Michael Walden
#57. If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen
#58. Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
Jack Kornfield
#59. We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.
Marc Chagall
#60. Do good and be a good person because that's just what the Lord expects. There just ain't nothing special about being and doing good. It's what the Lord expects ...
Andrew Galasetti
#61. Few value just how fragile a person's psyche is. All those pieces, both the good and bad, the values, the lessons, the beliefs that construct us - they're all woven into the fabric of our being. Once you start pulling out the first thread, the entire person is in danger of unravelling.
Jessica Dotta
#62. How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
Michel De Montaigne
#63. As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about.
Scarlett Johansson
#64. Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.
Sei Shonagon
#65. I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.
Pete Wentz
#66. As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#67. The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There's a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything.
Nathan Hill
#68. If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.
Monique Coleman
#69. Religion" (a person's own efforts to find their way to God through being "good" or following rituals) is a poor substitute for true spiritual power: the life of God breathed into a human being, bringing genuine transformation.
Bob Hamp
#70. Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.
Jay Park
#71. Be a good listener ... It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
Wayne Dyer
#72. I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life ... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.
Angelina Jolie
#73. Maybe love, at its essence, is being a mirror for another person - for the good parts and the bad. Perhaps love is simply finding that one person who sees you clearly, cares for you deeply, challenges you and supports you, and subsequently helps you see and be your true self.
Penny Reid
#74. I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.
Emily Deschanel
#75. I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.
LaMont Jordan
#76. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.
Robert Audi
#77. The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.
Alex Jones
#78. I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.
Kevin Hart
#79. I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
Mz. Robinson
#80. I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.
Johnny Weir
#81. Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
Anne Hathaway
#82. I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.
Jeff Gordon
#83. For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.
Lisa Edelstein
#84. Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
Anna Gunn
#85. I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.
Ndamukong Suh
#86. Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.
Susan Orlean
#87. She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned - rather slowly; I wasn't too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.
Robert A. Heinlein
#88. I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Wallace Shawn
#89. Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.
Tracy McMillan
#90. Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
Kage Baker
#91. The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.
Marcel Proust
#92. I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.
Andy Warhol
#93. I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
Rolf Harris
#94. The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.
Misha Collins
#95. Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. But
Jenny Han
#96. In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
Karen Salmansohn
#97. 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
#98. If there is one good thing about an angry mob, it's that they are so focused on being angry and mobbish that they sometimes miss little things. Things like a horse-drawn cart being driven by the very person who has made them so angry and mobbish in the first place.
Cuthbert Soup
#99. I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
Michael Chiklis
#100. Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
David Levithan