Good Quotes: Words of Wisdom for a Better Life (Page 2)

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"To do no evil is good, to intend none better"

Claudius, Leader

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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, Astronaut

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

Kygo, Musician

"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"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, Diplomat

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"A good friend is my nearest relation"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"A good system shortens the road to the goal"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"You was a good man, and did good things"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else"

Mencius, Philosopher

"If it looks good, it will fly good"

Bill Lear, Inventor

"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains"

Cicero, Philosopher