quotes about Be Good
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
-- Abu Bakr -
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
-- Albert Camus -
There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories
-- Alethea Kontis -
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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-- Alfred Nobel -
I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.
-- Ann Macbeth -
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
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There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
-- Anthony S. FauciSource : "Bird flu: how two mutant strains led to an international controversy" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
-- Arthur Ashe -
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.
-- Arthur L. Williams, Jr. -
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
-- B. C. Forbes -
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What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.
-- Barack Obama -
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
-- Ben Hogan -
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
-- Benjamin WhichcoteSource : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.84
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
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To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.
-- Billy Crystal -
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
-- Bob Brown -
I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.
-- Brett Favre -
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The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
-- Bruno BettelheimSource : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage
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If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.
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Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.
-- Cate Tiernan -
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I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.
-- Charlie Bewley -
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.
-- Charlie LeDuffSource : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.184, Penguin
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All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
-- Colman McCarthy -
There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.
-- David Duchovny -
Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.
-- David Easton -
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
-- David Letterman -
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The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.
-- Delia Smith -
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
-- Donald Judd -
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There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
-- Dorothy RoweSource : Robert W. Bly (2007). “The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells”, p.39, Holt Paperbacks
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
-- Edward Bond -
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Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
I'm a good person, but with many defects.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
-- Eric Allin Cornell -
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.
-- Erykah Badu -
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
-- Euripides -
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
-- F. H. Bradley -
It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
-- George Crabbe -
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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
-- George Eliot -
Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.
-- George Farquhar -
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
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But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
-- Hartley ColeridgeSource : 'Liberty' (1833)
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You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
-- Helen Fielding -
As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.
-- Henry D. Taylor -
Be not merely good. Be good for something.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.
-- Hillary Scott -
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
-- Ian HartSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. February 6, 2013.
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Oh, lady be good To me.
-- Ira GershwinSource : "Oh, Lady, Be Good!" (song) (1924)
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We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
-- Isaac BarrowSource : Isaac Barrow (1798). “Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...”, p.378
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There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
-- J. C. Ryle -
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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 -
For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.
-- James Berardinelli -
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I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it,
-- Jean ShrimptonSource : "The Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton". Interview With Alex Wade, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.
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It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
-- Jenny DownhamSource : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
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I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.
-- Jeremy Renner -
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It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.
-- Jesse Robredo -
Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.
-- Joe Nichols -
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
-- John Adams -
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I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.
-- John Ciardi -
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
-- John Foster Dulles -
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
-- Jonas SalkSource : "Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios". Book by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, p. 332, 1998.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
-- Joseph Heller -
It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
-- Josh LiebSource : Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.162, Penguin
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I never could be good when I was not happy.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.
-- Julie DelpySource : "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
-- Kaitlin Olson -
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
-- Karl Barth -
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It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.
-- Katey Sagal -
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
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
-- Kevin Costner -
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I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.
-- Kirstie Alley -
It is typically Norwegian to be good
-- Kjell Magne Bondevik -
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
-- Laura Marling -