Good Quotes

One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they're on your side, you're doing something right.

~ Hope Solo

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

~ Katy Perry

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

~ Lyle Lovett

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

~ Jimmy Carter

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

~ Thomas Keller

I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it's being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That's important to me.

~ Peyton Manning

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

~ Elton John

It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

~ Stephanie Sigman

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 Dalí

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

~ Connie Nielsen

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

~ Katy Perry

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

~ Mark Wahlberg

I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.

~ Anthony Rizzo

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

~ Roger Federer

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

~ Salvatore J. Cordileone

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

~ Lillian Gordy Carter

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

~ Walter Annenberg

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

~ Thorstein Veblen

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

~ Max Nordau

I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.

~ Garth Davis

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

~ Pierre De Coubertin

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

~ Susan Estrich

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

~ Amy Grant

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

~ Anthony Collins

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

~ Neil Kurshan

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

~ Bill Gross

I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

~ Alison Brie

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

~ Logan Lerman

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

~ Gail Kelly

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

~ Pierce Brosnan

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

~ Robert Gottlieb

I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

~ Emma Watson

The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom - proclaims the film's respect for facts and truths that can't be squeezed into a smooth narrative.

~ Richard Corliss

When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.

~ Suresh Raina

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

~ Peter Zumthor

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

~ Joe Lieberman

China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

~ Obiageli Ezekwesili

I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.

~ Richard Devos