Top 100 Quotes About The Good And The Bad
#2. One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
Michael Ignatieff
#3. I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.
Charles Haley
#4. The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
Anthony Trollope
#5. The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.
- The power of your subconcious mind
Joseph Murphy
#6. Love was sticking by the person you most cared about through the good and the bad. Love was being there when no one else wanted to. Love was growing old together.
Megan C. Smith
#7. Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.
Donna Freitas
#8. It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#9. Jesus doesn't want what you can do for Him. He wants you.....all of you.....the good and the bad.
Wade Grassedonio
#10. The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.
John J. Stephens
#11. When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
Lauren Oliver
#12. And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.
Kahlil Gibran
#13. Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.
Eudora Welty
#14. Love of fate?" "It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.
Kate Atkinson
#15. If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world ... you should have faith in yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#16. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition
Julian Baggini
#17. It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.
Zinedine Zidane
#18. The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.
Paulo Coelho
#19. I remember everything about you, Miss Macy. Every moment between us - the good and the bad." He chuckled dryly. "Though I prefer to linger on more recent pleasant moments.
Julie Klassen
#20. The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust.
Luke F.D. Marsden
#21. My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'
Pete Hamill
#22. There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus
#23. With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
Henry Rollins
#24. I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.
Sergio Leone
#25. The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
Shane Claiborne
#26. Life is a mess, there is trouble around every corner. But Jesus gives us peace and rest in the good and the bad times.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#27. I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport.
Emanuel Steward
#28. There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#29. In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
Chogyam Trungpa
#30. Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless.
Melody Anne
#31. The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses - what's come before and what will come after, you and me -
Kami Garcia
#32. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.
Kate Atkinson
#33. I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
Julia Roberts
#34. Seeing him this close to me brings back every single feeling I've ever felt for this boy ... the good and the bad.
Colleen Hoover
#35. And of course, I had to see you today, on your birthday." "You remembered?" He turned to her, expression earnest. "I remember everything about you, Miss Macy. Every moment between us - the good and the bad.
Julie Klassen
#36. already thinking about the good and the bad and the deep human necessity of it all, and how anybody ever got anything done without family, and how someone could give that up in the amount of time it takes to seal an envelope, with the same saliva once used to seal a marriage.
J. Ryan Stradal
#37. See yourself as you really are.
Accept the good and the bad.
Only then can you truly share yourself with another.
Velyn Cooper
#38. She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.
Elena Ferrante
#39. A stable weather is a gift, you can enjoy the pink life; a stormy weather is a gift, you can learn the real life! Both the good and the bad are gifts!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.
Nora Roberts
#41. Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men,
the Good and the Bad.
But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume
#42. 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
Bud Grant
#43. Life is about the good and the bad. Good is easy. Bad is hard. Finding a way to make good from the bad is the secret. The few who discover the ability within themselves
nothing can stand in their way of happiness.
Landon Parham
#44. I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.
Patti Smith
#45. I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it's worth it.
Kimberly Nalen
#46. Loving you meant loving every part of you, the good and the bad, the easy and the hard.
Tara Sivec
#47. Maybe love's more than the daily comforts: more than morning coffees and flowers and notes in my lunch bag and holding hands while watching the stars. It's about never giving up, believing in each other, and supporting each other through the good and the bad.
Shannon Mullen
#48. There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Louis Armstrong
#49. Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.
Tobin Heath
#50. In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#51. No one would ever know me like he did. Understand and indulge the darkness and the lightness in me. The good and the bad. The strong and the weak. Take all of the parts of me that were toxic and soothe them with the perfect antidote. We had all of the ingredients of forever love.
R.K. Lilley
#52. Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful life.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of ... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
Victor Hugo
#54. My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
Ellen DeGeneres
#55. For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have ... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.
Jane Jensen
#56. The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#57. The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.
Doug Liman
#58. Yes," I clipped out, "I know. Hurt happens."
I heard that long, weary exhalation.
"It does. That's life. It's the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the wins and the losses. I never thought you'd be too afraid to try. I though you were stronger than that.
Josh Lanyon
#59. People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining.
Tyler Oakley
#60. If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
John Cowper Powys
#61. Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.
Kyle Cassie
#62. It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.
Anne Rice
#63. The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.
Suman Jyoty Bhante
#64. There are always two voices in our heads, the good and the bad. The tricky part is to figure out which one of them is doing the talking.
Saahil Prem
#65. When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.
Jodi Picoult
#66. In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
Isabelle Huppert
#67. It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
#68. 34. Not equal are the good and the bad response. You shall resort to the one which is better. Thus, the one who used to be your enemy, may become your best friend.
The Monotheist Group
#69. When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
Laura Prepon
#70. All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.
Thomas Paine
#71. I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.
Michael Ondaatje
#72. There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.
Beyonce Knowles
#73. In the end, we must all individually take collective responsibility for both the good and the bad that exist in this world.
Mac MacKenzie
#74. The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
Michael Crichton
#75. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles you.
Elena Ferrante
#76. Take me. Take all of me. The good and the bad. Everything. Take it all.
Sylvia Day
#77. Muddling along ... is the great secret to life ... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
#78. This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.
Frederick Lenz
#79. In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
Randeep Hooda
#80. The past would always be part of the present, but at least that was true for both sides: the good and the bad.
Aleksandr Voinov
#81. There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.
Neal Shusterman
#82. Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.
Alan DeNiro
#83. Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
Edgar Allan Poe
#84. To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth. Left
Ed Catmull
#85. Everything we go through, the good and the bad, make us who we are; why would I want to be anyone else?
P.A. Minyard
#86. I want to marry you, Jenna. And marriage means a partnership. A partnership means we take the good and the bad.
Jaci Burton
#87. Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all ... and pile on the years.
Natsuki Takaya
#88. You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
Ally Carter
#89. Effort. The good and the bad. I see now that true love isn't fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.
Tara Brown
#90. Everything in life, the good and the bad, happens for a reason. You shouldn't question it, you should accept it, and take it as a life lesson, because maybe, just maybe, that bad experience is leading you down the road to the greatest adventure of your life.
Micalea Smeltzer
#91. To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
Bjorn Lomborg
#92. Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai Lama
#93. We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
Stephen Covey
#94. Relationships are built on the good and the bad, it's how we handle each situation that defines our character.
Melody Anne
#95. Love isn't static. If it's big enough, it changes to accommodate the good and the bad.
Tibby Armstrong
#96. The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.
Marjorie M. Liu
#97. Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
Alan Furst
#98. For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
Neal McDonough
#99. As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action
Maitreya Upanishad
#100. The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.
William Boyd
