Best 295 quotes in «be good quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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.

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

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.

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

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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

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

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

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

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

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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