Good Things Quotations

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that’s a good thing I don’t know,

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing,

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

I did some good things as a rookie.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

There's not enough good things in the world.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.