Good Quotes

"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer"

Willie Mays, Athlete

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

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"To a journalist, good news is often not news at all"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away"

Will Arnett, Actor

"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos"

Graham Nash, Musician

"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"Good night, and good luck"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do"

Elias Canetti, Author

"If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"We cannot make good news out of bad practice"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"It was good while it was good"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

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