Best 295 quotes in «be good quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

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.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

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

That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There will always be good and bad in every community.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.