Good Quotes

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.

~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

~ Robert Henri

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

~ Marcus Buckingham

Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

~ Tadashi Shoji

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

~ Barbra Streisand

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

~ Xenophanes

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

~ Donald Wuerl

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

~ Elizabeth Peyton

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.

~ Elodie Clouvel

So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

~ Corey Taylor

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

~ Ivan Turgenev

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

~ Black Elk

I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

~ Monica

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

~ Lillian Hellman

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

~ Thorstein Veblen

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

~ Roger Federer

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

~ Lady Gregory

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

~ Michael Moore

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

~ Jason Statham

People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

~ Sylvester Stallone

My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs.

~ Sydney Pollack

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

~ Dennis Prager

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

~ Janet Reno

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

~ John Ruskin

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

~ Jim Brown

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one's strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria's Secret catalogs.

~ Michael Dirda

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

~ Liev Schreiber

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

~ Nas

Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not a talent per se, but it's just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do.

~ Nikki Glaser

All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

~ Sophia Bush

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

~ Saint Ambrose

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

~ Vijender Singh

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

~ Bob Keeshan

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

~ Donald Trump

Patience is the secret to good food.

~ Gail Simmons

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

~ Saint Ignatius

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

~ Ralph Fiennes

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

~ Herman Hesse