Good Quotes

"I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil"

Anatole France, Novelist

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent"

John Calvin, Theologian

"If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue"

Anatole France, Novelist

"People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life"

Peter Tosh, Musician

"There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee"

Tacitus, Historian

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor"

Tacitus, Historian

"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means"

Sallust, Historian

"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times"

Ben Jonson, Poet

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

Don Marquis, Journalist

"But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success"

Thornton Wilder, Writer