Good People Quotes

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

~ Lee Iacocca

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

~ Eric Schmidt

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

~ Richard Russo

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

~ Dennis Prager

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

~ Tammy Bruce

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

~ Helen Mirren

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.

~ Jon Pardi

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

~ Cat Stevens

When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.

~ Sophia Bush

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

~ Hugh Hefner

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

~ Henry Rollins

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

~ Elayne Boosler

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

~ Ben Goldacre

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

~ Paula Danziger

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

~ Harmony Korine

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

~ Oscar Wilde

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

~ William E. Simon

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

~ Herbert Simon

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

~ Oscar Wilde

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

~ Don Shula