Be Good Quotations

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

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

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

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.

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

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

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

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

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

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

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

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

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.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.

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

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

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

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

Run from being good. Chase being great.

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

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

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

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

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

Learn to be good for something.

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

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

Something needn't be large to be good.

Be good. Do something good.

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

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.

Being a good example teaches others to be good.

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

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Being good enough never is.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

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.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

Oh, lady be good To me.

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

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

It is essential that America's word be good.

Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

It is my dominant intent to be good to me.

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

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

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?