Best 295 quotes in «be good quotes» category

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

It is typically Norwegian to be good

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

It would be good karma.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Let's just chant and be good people, alright?

I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will be good to renew the acquaintance.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

Never give up, laugh a lot. Be good to others.

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

No one ever delighted a customer by being 'good enough'.

One thing I do know is that we are fortunate to be here and we're here to try and better ourselves and to be good.

Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

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

Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

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.

Seeing someone you know be good at something is really appealing. Seeing how Darren Aronofsky behaved on set, it was another aspect of him, the director. He'd never directed me at home in the kitchen before. It was just seeing a whole other aspect of someone. It was really, really exciting. I loved it.

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

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.