Top 100 Quotes About Being Good
#1. I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I'm being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training.
Joanne Froggatt
#2. Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
Tom Hodgkinson
#3. Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
Vanna Bonta
#4. Music being "good or bad" is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.
Jacob Bannon
#5. The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.
Alan Cohen
#6. I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.
Bryan Cogman
#7. What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.
Jonathan Franzen
#8. The idea I'll explore is that the act of feeling what you think others are feeling - whatever one chooses to call this - is different from being compassionate, from being kind, and most of all, from being good. From a moral standpoint, we're better off without it.
Paul Bloom
#9. Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
George C. Williams
#10. The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.
Danny Wallace
#11. Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is the rest is semi-history.
Kurt Fuller
#12. There are some people who will never see you as being good enough. That is their short-coming not yours. Be merciful enough to yourself to cut them out of your life.
Steve Maraboli
#13. Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
#15. The point of being good is doing it when it's tough, not when it's easy.
Sally Green
#16. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#17. Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.
Douglas Adams
#18. If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
Taylor Swift
#19. Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
Brian Eno
#20. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
Zadie Smith
#21. Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'
Joel Osteen
#22. The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
Jonas Salk
#23. The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#24. 'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
Seth Godin
#25. Smiley TV preachers might tell you that following Jesus is about being good so that God will bless you with cash and prizes, but really it's much more gruesome and meaningful. It's about spiritual physics. Something has to die for something new to live.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#26. The children of the hour of darkness were born, I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.
Salman Rushdie
#27. The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.
Dean Koontz
#28. Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
Stephen Covey
#29. Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.
Bill Watterson
#30. Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
Charles Kingsley
#31. On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
Alain De Botton
#32. It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#33. When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.
Ben Elton
#34. I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.
Seanan McGuire
#35. It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
Josh Billings
#36. I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#37. I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
Imelda Staunton
#38. I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.
April Bloomfield
#39. All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
Steve Spurrier
#40. 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
#41. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.
Orson Scott Card
#42. Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt's sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.
Andy Stanley
#43. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.
Miguel Ruiz
#44. Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose,
And safe from action, valiantly advise;
Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows,
And being good for nothing else, be wise.
John Wilmot
#45. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn Rand
#46. Being good is making it look easy, but getting good is never easy.
Jeffrey Fry
#47. And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good.
And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
Bobby Goldsboro
#48. How does it feel to be almost the best? It's a bit like not being good enough at all, isn't it?
Veronica Rossi
#49. How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.
John G. Neihardt
#50. As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?"
"Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.
Ilsa J. Bick
#52. Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
#53. We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
Dorothy Rowe
#54. I think I understand what you mean, about there being good in all faiths. In all gods, in all beliefs. When I think about it . . . I guess I've just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith
Charlie N. Holmberg
#56. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She
Stephen King
#57. One cannot be kind in any meaningful way over any length of time without also being good.
Nevada Barr
#58. Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.
Rachel Bloom
#59. When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is - dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.
Jefferson Bethke
#60. We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.
George MacDonald
#61. I want to believe that there is enough good in all of us to be marvelously good if we're daring enough to rid ourselves of everything that keeps us from being good.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#63. It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H.L. Mencken
#64. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland
#65. we cannot be prudent without being good.
Aristotle.
#66. You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.
Bobby Orr
#67. The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.
James Swain
#68. I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
Kaley Cuoco
#69. Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
Thomas More
#70. Some leaders push innovations by being good at the big picture. Others do so by mastering details. Jobs did both, relentlessly.
Walter Isaacson
#71. Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.
Rainn Wilson
#72. I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.
William Faulkner
#73. While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
James E. Faust
#74. Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.
Steven D. Levitt
#75. Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.
Terry Pratchett
#76. What is so great about being good?
Marie Lu
#77. Being good does make a difference. You will not receive praise or payment for it, and other people will mistake your goodness for weakness, but it resonates among people you won't even meet.
Jessica Zafra
#78. There's a difference between being good and doing bad things. Sometimes, a person does something because he doesn't have a choice. He might not like what he did ... but it doesn't make him bad.
Lorraine Heath
#79. None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#80. A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence.
Alan W. Watts
#81. Being good has nothing to do with being a Boy !!. Better is the latter!
Nelson Jack
#83. If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
Michael J. Fox
#84. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#85. It's not about me being good enough for you, Fletcher. It's whether you're good enough for me. Silence. And then hang-up beeps.
J.A. Huss
#86. You can do more good by being good than any other way.
John Wooden
#87. No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor Swift
#88. We're in the business of luxury and there's nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.
Phoebe Philo
#89. Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together
Phil Mitchell
#90. Blame is one of the gravest problems we face, spiritually and emotionally. It keeps us more concerned about being "good" than about being honest.
Henry Cloud
#91. Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Idries Shah
#92. Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.
Geoffrey Wood
#93. Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.
Brett Favre
#95. He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made him unwilling to forget grudges.
Warren Eyster
#96. I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.
Ann Macbeth
#97. Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Peter Drucker
#98. The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good
Brent Weeks
#99. Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.
Jack Donovan
#100. My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren't prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.
Joss Sheldon
