Best 295 quotes in «be good quotes» category

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

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

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

There will always be good and bad in every community.

There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

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

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

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.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

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

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

We're in this space right now where things are very precarious for women and things in the States are so terrifying. There are so many rollbacks of rights women have gained - and it can happen quickly, more quickly than we think. I think it would be good for us to think back and ahead to protect the space we're in.