c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
— Benjamin Franklin
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
— Baltasar Gracian
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
— William Osler
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
— Diane von Furstenberg
What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
— Anthony Kiedis
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
— Robert J. Shiller
Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.
— Amy Grant
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
— George S. Patton
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
— Buddha
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
— Plato
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
— Aly Raisman
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
— Donald Trump
I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.
— Evan Rachel Wood
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
— Chief Joseph
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
— Maurice de Vlaminck
You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
— Laura Trott
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
— Pratibha Patil
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
— Mark Haddon
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
— Philip Green
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.
— Erin Heatherton
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
— Andrew Jackson
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
— Harbhajan Singh
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
— Bo Bennett
Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
— Eliyahu Goldratt
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
— Richard Stallman
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
— Izaak Walton
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
— John Locke
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
— Salvador Dali
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
— Leo Burnett
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
— Martin Luther
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
— Swami Sivananda
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
— Benjamin Franklin
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
— Scott Alexander
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
— Chanakya
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
— Jack Ma
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
— Harry Dean Stanton
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
— Carl Rogers
It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.
— Robert Richardson
I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
— Sandra Bullock
Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.
— Jason Statham
It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
— Meg White
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
— Pope Francis
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
— Anne Frank
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
— Thomas Aquinas
A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.
— Alexa Von Tobel
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
— Will Rogers
There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
— Arlen Specter
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
— Keanu Reeves
Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.
— Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
— Brene Brown
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
— Brennan Manning
Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
— Desmond Tutu
Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.
— Mary Docter
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
— Edmund Burke
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.
— John Bradshaw
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
— Gretchen Rubin
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
— St. Jerome
Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
— Joe Torre
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
— William J. Clinton
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
— Anne Wilson Schaef
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
— John Wesley
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
— Socrates
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
— Tupac Shakur
My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.
— Russell Westbrook
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
— Alexander McQueen
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
— Vanessa Lachey
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
— Maeve Binchy
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
— Abraham Lincoln
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
— Anna Kendrick
I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.
— Kimberly Elise
The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
— Chris Pine
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
— J. Cole
My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
— Kirsty Gallacher
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.
— Deep Roy
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
— David Carson
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
— Doug Larson
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
— Rene Descartes
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.
— Shari Arison
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
— Lao Tzu
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
— Jane Austen
A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
— Chanakya
When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
— Solange Knowles
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
— Ethel Waters
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
— Ann Hood
The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.
— Edwin Markham
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
— Eckhart Tolle
In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.
— Paul Dano
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'
— Donald Trump
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
— Ben Carson
I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
— Jon Pardi
My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
— Anne F. Beiler
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
— William Shakespeare
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
— Benjamin Franklin
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
— C. S. Lewis
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
— Oscar Wilde
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
— Nelson Mandela
Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.
— Jochen Zeitz
The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.
— Twinkle Khanna
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
— John Knoll
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
— Sun Tzu
We want to do a lot of stuff we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Good night, and good luck.
— Edward R. Murrow
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
— William James
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare
All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.
— Reba McEntire
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
— Taylor Swift
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
— Zig Ziglar
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
— Evel Knievel
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.
— Matthew McConaughey
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
— Sherry Turkle
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
— Tim Burton
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.
— Nick Hanauer
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
— Bill Gates
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.
— Gerard Depardieu
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
— Aristotle
We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple.
— Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
— Pablo Picasso
A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.
— Jennette McCurdy
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
— Dwyane Wade
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
— Albert Camus
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
— Thomas Carlyle
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
— Charles Dickens
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
— Robin Wright
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
— Benito Mussolini
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
— Kate Winslet
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
— Paulo Coelho
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
— Thomas Jefferson
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
— Richard M. Nixon
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
— Carol Burnett
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
— Dieter Rams
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
— Joe Biden
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
— John Muir
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
— Frank Crane
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
— David Rockefeller
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
— Raul Julia
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
— Jimmy Dean
Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
— Jurgen Klopp
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
— Saint Augustine
I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
— Jessica White
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
— J. P. Morgan
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
— Paulo Coelho
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
— Brene Brown
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
— Big Boi
I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.
— Bob Marley
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.
— Joan Rivers
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
— Godfrey Winn
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
— Barack Obama
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
— Hugh Hefner
If it tastes really good, and it's funky, it's funkalicous. If the guy making it is funky, he's funkintacious.
— Guy Fieri
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
— Maya Angelou
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
— John Stuart Mill
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
— Steven Wright
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
— Hippocrates
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
— Yogi Berra
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
— Kevin DeYoung
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
— John Bytheway
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
— Frank Sinatra
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
— Vince Lombardi
My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.
— Geri Halliwell
A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
— Miranda Kerr
What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
— Malala Yousafzai
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.
— Richard Branson
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
— Eckhart Tolle
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.
— Andrew Weil
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin
Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.
— Chris Klein
Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.
— Anthony Joshua
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
— Elizabeth Edwards
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
— Epictetus
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
— John Stuart Mill
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
— William Shakespeare
Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
— Barack Obama
We all have the duty to do good.
— Pope Francis
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
— Joyce Meyer
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
— Amy Grant
I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'
— Eve Ensler
Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.
— Juan Manuel Santos
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
— Frida Kahlo
Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.
— Shari Arison
You're only as good as your last haircut.
— Fran Lebowitz
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
— John Oates
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
— Joel Kinnaman
I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.
— Tom Watson
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.
— Joel Osteen
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
— Shakira
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
— Samuel Johnson
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
— Carl Sandburg
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
— Antonin Scalia
What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.
— Kim Cattrall
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
— Mariska Hargitay
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
— Richard Lederer
Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
— John Derek
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.
— Michael Jordan
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
— Ansel Adams
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
— Sun Tzu
Bad news travels at the speed of light good news travels like molasses.
— Tracy Morgan
I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.
— Mikko Hypponen
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— Origen
My motto is: more good times.
— Jack Nicholson
You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.
— Andrew Benintendi
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
— Moliere
The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.
— Nick Cummins
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
— Rebecca Romijn
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
— Alexander the Great
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
— James McAvoy
I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.
— Elon Musk
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
— Thomas Aquinas
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
— Florence Kelley
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
— Bill Bryson
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
— Venus Williams
To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
— Eli Pariser
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
— Emily Post
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
— Yo-Yo Ma
You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.
— Joel Osteen
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
— Dorothea Dix
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
— Indra Nooyi
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
— Brian Wilson
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
— William James
Paris is always a good idea.
— Audrey Hepburn
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
— Christiane Amanpour
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
— Agatha Christie
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
— Shiv Khera
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
— Groucho Marx
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
— John Wooden
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
— Henri Matisse
I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.
— Kygo
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
— Nicolas Cage
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
— Channing Pollock
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
— Amy Winehouse
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
— William H. McRaven
My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
— Peter Falk
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
— Alice Walker
Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.
— Robin Marantz Henig
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
— Linus Torvalds
Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
— Narendra Modi
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
— Norman Thomas
If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.
— Jordin Sparks
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
— Dr. Seuss
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
— Douglas Horton
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
— Srikumar Rao
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
— Norman Cousins
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
— Socrates
Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
— Bethany Hamilton
Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.
— Rollo May
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.
— Victoria Osteen
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
— Oscar Wilde
Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.
— Diana Quick
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
— David Ogilvy
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
— Arthur C. Clarke
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
— Ellen Ochoa
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
— Max Weber
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
— Bainbridge Colby
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Fashion is about comfort and feeling good.
— Max Azria
All holidays can be good times.
— John Clayton
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
— E. L. Doctorow
In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
— Frederick W. Taylor
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
— Buddha
My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
— James Dobson
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
— Charles Bukowski
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
— E. B. White
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
— Marcus Aurelius
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
— Alfred Nobel
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
— David Bowie
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
— George Washington
If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
— Tim Wise
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
— Virginia Woolf
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
— George Mason
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
— Rutger Hauer
I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.
— Katy Perry
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
— Elizabeth Warren
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
— Stephen King
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
— James Allen
I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
— Katherine Johnson
To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.
— Avril Lavigne
I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the football field.
— Eric Berry
Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.
— Alain de Botton
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes
A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
— Laura Linney
My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
— W. Bruce Cameron
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
— Charles Lyell
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
— Jude Law
Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
— Rami Malek
If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.
— Sylvester Stallone
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
Good seasons start with good beginnings.
— Sparky Anderson
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
— Aristotle
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
— Sigmund Freud
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.
— Drew Houston
Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
— Madhuri Dixit
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
— Daniel Kahneman
When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.
— Nas
A good example is far better than a good precept.
— Dwight L. Moody
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
— Mark Victor Hansen
I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
— Nick Cannon
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
— Samuel Butler
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
— Jack London
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
— Lady Gaga
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
— Freeman Thomas