Good Quotes

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand"

"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them"

George Eliot, Author

"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"

George Eliot, Author

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure"

George Eliot, Author

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down"

George Eliot, Author

"In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this"

Michael Graves, Architect

"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good"

Michael Graves, Architect

"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ"

Thomas Merton, Author

"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God"

Adam Smith, Economist

"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"Peeves do not make very good pets"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do"

Bo Bennett, Businessman