The Good Quotes

#1. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Harry Crews

#2. My children will not remember the words of wisdom I've passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you've given. However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you've lived before them.

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

#3. Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing

Karen Marie Moning

#4. There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

Arnold Bennett

#6. I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Darkness does something to a place, doesn't it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

David Jeremiah

#8. Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

Mia Farrow

#10. When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

#11. You're the nice, quiet alcoholic. The good intellectual alcoholic.

Caroline Knapp

#12. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

Anna Quindlen

#13. Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Stanley Hauerwas

#14. They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#15. He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God." He leaned over. "While you sinned while praising God.

Miles Cameron

#16. Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ...

Nicki Minaj

#17. E'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

E. Lockhart

#18. The good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again alone.

Marcel Proust

#19. I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

Kim Jee-woon

#20. We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I'm sure there will be some obstacles in the path ... But the good faith effort that's being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.

Dick Durbin

#21. Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#22. We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Blaise Pascal

#23. I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

Leslie Moonves

#24. The good show is not about people fighting or getting drunk or throwing up on each other, or hating each other - it's about celebrating people's talent.

Cat Deeley

#25. We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

Newton Gatambia

#26. Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

John Owen

#27. The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

Michele Bachmann

#28. Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.

Corliss Lamont

#29. To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

Audrey Hepburn

#30. I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.

Criss Jami

#31. Niccolo had never seen so many gadgets and flashing lights, all just so they could remotely observe an abandoned military hanger about a quarter mile away. In the good ol' days, we just hid behind a bush.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#32. Do Christians in fact eagerly long for Christ's return? The more Christians are caught up in enjoying the good things of this life, and the more they neglect genuine Christian fellowship and their personal relationship with Christ, the less they will long for his return.

Wayne A. Grudem

#33. The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Dorothea Lange

#34. All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively ... and then living it.

Criss Jami

#35. It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.

Vincent De Paul

#36. Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

Pamela Erens

#37. The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Mitchell Baker

#38. Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

Charles A. Dana

#40. Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Morgan Wootten

#41. First, however, and feeling real excitement at the thought, the good burst of adrenaline at last, Behringer wanted to dismantle the sockets and loosen his patient's eyes. Behringer

Jonathan Lethem

#42. Where there is evil, brutality and hatred, there is overwhelming courage,
strength and kindness.
Focus on the good.
Stay positive.
Stay together.
Stay peaceful.
Stay strong.

Tanya Masse

#43. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.

Richard Sibbes

#44. Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.

Leonard Tourney

#45. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death.

Maximilien De Robespierre

#47. Because of Christ alone, embraced through faith alone, for the glory of God and the good of our neighbors alone, on the basis of God's Word alone - and nothing more. This is the slogan of the ordinary Christian (Luke 10:27).

Michael S. Horton

#48. A friendship will stand the test of time when all the good that is given is repaid in kind.

Theodore Volgoff

#49. Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

Andy Partridge

#50. But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

William Peter Blatty

#51. A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

Rick Bass

#52. The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

Robert Dodsley

#53. Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby.
'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily for us, we are.'
'Well you might know that but how do I?

Lauren Child

#54. It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Tacitus

#55. The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

Ryan Adams

#56. If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff!

Jenna Ushkowitz

#57. It's so hard for me to accept the good in him.

A.G. Howard

#58. There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Ariel Dorfman

#59. It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.

Dolly Parton

#60. If we shall take the good we find,asking no questions,we shall have heaping measures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

John C. Calhoun

#62. In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.

Libba Bray

#63. A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

William Sansom

#64. I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.

Jana Stanfield

#65. It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.

Thomas Watson

#66. He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance.

Nina George

#67. For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

Robert Barclay

#68. A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all ... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.

Robert Genn

#69. The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

Chogyam Trungpa

#70. It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.

Gillian Flynn

#71. The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Ben Stein

#72. The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#73. What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?

Andy Stanley

#74. Walt: Do you miss the good old days?

Gracie: How old?

Walt: When we were old enough to be good.

Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young.

Sean Condon

#75. I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

Ken Osmond

#76. I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

Joyce Meyer

#77. It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Marcus Aurelius

#78. Those who attend to the good side of everything contemplate the good. Those who contemplate the good enjoy life.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

#79. I thought I knew you," she snapped. "I thought you were a good man, down deep"
Cett shook his head. "The good men are all dead, Allrianne. They died inside that city.

Brandon Sanderson

#80. In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

#81. Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

#82. Every sacrifice I make is for the good of my Clan - and for the other Clans around the lake. Even if that means sacrificing myself.

Erin Hunter

#83. All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

J.R. Ward

#84. Sin is not just the wrong stuff we do; it's the good we don't do. It's the starving children we don't want to look at, the volunteering we avoid, the poor we don't want to serve, and the money we don't want to give.

John Ortberg

#85. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.

Aaron Rowand

#86. The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.

Marjorie M. Liu

#87. Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

Ndamukong Suh

#88. Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

Saint Augustine

#89. I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

Christian De Duve

#90. Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes

Amie Kaufman

#91. It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me?

Laura Vanderkam

#92. I hadn't thought of it before, but the Good Doctor is very much like water, fitting in wherever he needs to. Ever-present, but never obtrusive. Calming, comforting, yet inescapable.

Heather Day Gilbert

#93. When I said I loved you, I didn't mean for a week, or maybe a year, I meant always, in the good times and the bad, through thick and thin. I'm playing for keeps here, Mags.

Sherry Gammon

#94. I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

Nicholas Haslam

#95. How did the date go?"
"Bad. A text-a-holic...."
"Not the good kind of trouble."
"There's only one thing to say when this happens."
"What's that?"
"Next.

Melissa McClone

#96. Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Mason Cooley

#97. Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.

Adolf Hitler

#98. It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Joel Osteen

#99. I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.

Jon Foreman

#100. What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

George W. Bush