To Be Good Quotes

#1. The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

Kurt Fuller

#2. I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

Nicola Sturgeon

#3. All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

Paul Broun

#5. I think that is supposed to be good,
that I get less
from him
but I feel
worth
less.

Thalia Chaltas

#6. You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

Chris Decker

#7. When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect,

Hayley DiMarco

#8. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. In itself, no doubt, the natural and moderate satisfaction of the sexual instinct is a matter quite indifferent to morality. It is only in relation to something else that the satisfaction of a natural instinct can be said to be good or bad.

Aldous Huxley

#10. It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

T. S. Eliot

#11. I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

Kevin Garnett

#12. Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!

L.M. Montgomery

#13. What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

Reid Hoffman

#14. I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.

Kermit Roosevelt III

#15. Maybe I don't have to perfect, I just have to be good enough.

Kerry Cohen

#16. Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray."
Oh. "You get me the nicest things."
"Anybody can get jewelry. Posers

Rachel Caine

#17. The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Yo, bredren, we be the illest,' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest,' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be good,' Nishant would finish with.

Nikesh Shukla

#19. Bad people ... are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Aristotle.

#20. War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Wolves are not all the things people want them to be, good or bad, but they've carried with them forever the most baggage.

Carter Niemeyer

#22. Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

Matt Berninger

#23. Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

Tony Abbott

#24. It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

Billy Gibbons

#25. Dark chocolate was supposed to be good for you, right?

Alice Clayton

#26. In order for good news to be good - like the gospel is good (literally means "good news") - it must invade bad spaces.

Matt Chandler

#27. The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Iris Murdoch

#28. There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today ... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Charles Dickens

#29. A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

Chloe Grace Moretz

#30. I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

Christina Hendricks

#31. If in the men who are supposed to be good they only see a "virtue" which is effectively less vital and less interesting than their own vices they will conclude that virtue has no meaning and will cling to what they have although they hate it.

Thomas Merton

#32. I am in the service of lost boys struggling to be good men.

Chuck Dixon

#33. I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

Ruth St. Denis

#34. And regardless of whomever I'm with for whatever amount of time, I'll be with myself the whole time and I want to be good to her. I want her to have a heart like an ocean: endlessly vast, full of wonder, and navigable only by the brave.

Kelton Wright

#35. It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#36. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

#37. To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

Louis Garrel

#38. It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

Iris Murdoch

#39. To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#40. It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#41. After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#42. Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

David Easton

#43. Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents!

Amit Chatterjee

#44. Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

Carol Bartz

#45. I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

Patrick Rothfuss

#46. She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

Stephen King

#47. If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

Morgan Freeman

#48. The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

Catherine McAuley

#49. I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

Steve Jobs

#50. Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Kelli Williams

#51. 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

#52. Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

John Bradshaw

#53. To be good at anything you have to practice.

Stephanie Perkins

#54. The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

J.B. Priestley

#55. The "with God" life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The "without God" life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.

John Ortberg

#56. It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste.

Nicola Yoon

#57. I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA.

Kevin Garnett

#58. Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Confucius

#59. Not long ago, someone who was dissatisfied with his or her spouse and wanted a divorce had to justify that decision. Today it's the opposite: If you're not fulfilled by your marriage, you have to justify staying in it, because of the tremendous cultural pressure to be good to one's self.

Anonymous

#60. I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

Ed Skrein

#61. Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.

P.G. Wodehouse

#62. There's going to be good plays that happen and bad plays that happen, but at the end of the day, when you have the chance to hit a big play, you have to hit it.

Andy Dalton

#63. What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

Orson Scott Card

#64. British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Tim Harford

#65. When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.

Caleb Followill

#66. To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#67. And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

John Grisham

#68. As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

Berenice Bejo

#69. Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.

Mike Wilson

#70. She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Ann Brashares

#71. As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good.

Anthony Bourdain

#72. God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Rick Warren

#73. If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Scott Berkun

#74. Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.

Patricia Briggs

#75. I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

Tom Lehman

#76. Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

Stephen Hopkins

#77. Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

Joshua Waitzkin

#78. Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

J.I. Packer

#79. Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable.

April Mae Monterrosa

#80. At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Letitia Baldrige

#81. It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Bob Keeshan

#82. The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good.

Sally Mann

#83. Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back.

David Ignatius

#84. There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

C. Terry Warner

#85. You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.'

Ciara

#86. China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

Mark Mobius

#87. Good education has got to be good entertainment.

Nicholas Negroponte

#88. To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

Billy Crystal

#89. Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

H. A. Rey

#90. Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good.

Richard Dawkins

#91. We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

John Mackey

#92. My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

George Foreman

#93. It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

Jenny Slate

#94. I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

Sheryl Crow

#95. You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Deb Caletti

#96. I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Assata Shakur

#97. Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.

Jonathan Cahn

#99. Some boys . . . they are just better when they're bad. Bax is one of them and I'm starting to think my brother might be one of them, too. I just have to be good enough for all of us to balance it out.

Jay Crownover

#100. Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

Nova Ren Suma