Good Quotes

Everyone has a different body shape, so you kind of have to figure out not only what works best for your body type, but what also makes you feel confident. Even if everyone thinks you look good in a bikini, and you don't feel good in it, you're not going to be at your best. If you feel great in a bikini, you can always work it.

~ Gigi Hadid

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

~ Václav Havel

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

~ Marianne Williamson

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

~ Ken Robinson

It feels good to have your work respected again.

~ Eminem

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.

~ Richard Trumka

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

~ Howard Gardner

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

~ Alvar Aalto

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

~ Janeane Garofalo

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

~ Jack Kemp

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.

~ Jack Kingston

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

~ John F. Kennedy

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

~ Ray Bradbury

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

~ Kenny Rogers

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

~ Andy Warhol

The scientists I looked up to at the beginning were not Latino. They were famous scientists of many years ago, like Madame Curie. Later, I realized that there were also, but a very few, Latino scientists. There were good ones, but very few, because there wasn't as much a tradition to be a scientist in our culture. But this is changing.

~ Mario J. Molina

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

~ Annie Leibovitz

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

~ Justin Theroux

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

~ Meghan Markle

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

~ Phoebe Philo

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

~ Anne Hathaway

There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.

~ Chris Rock

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

~ Brian Johnson

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

~ Laura Linney

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

~ Sam Altman

I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.

~ Irvine Welsh

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

~ Sharon Stone

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

~ Ian Mckellen

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

~ Evangeline Lilly

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

~ Ellen Degeneres

You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.

~ Ansel Elgort

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

~ Jewel

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

~ Rafael Nadal

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

~ Francesca Annis

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

~ Peyton Manning