Good Quotes

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

~ Ishmael Beah

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

~ Gouverneur Morris

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

~ Irena Sendler

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

~ Dalai Lama

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

~ Sam Harris

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

~ Samuel Chase

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

~ Larry Flynt

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

~ John Updike

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

~ Beatrix Potter

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

~ Dennis Prager

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

~ Chinua Achebe

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

~ Imelda Staunton

I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

~ Gal Gadot

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

~ Dalai Lama

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

~ Alain De Botton

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

~ Elie Wiesel

Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.

~ Steven Van Zandt

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

~ Stephen Colbert

I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.

~ Lee Trevino

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

~ Kirk Douglas

I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

~ S. Truett Cathy

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

~ Ramakrishna

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

~ Yehuda Amichai

Life is all about having a good time.

~ Miley Cyrus

A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I'm doing. It's not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it's just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it's hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.

~ Simone Biles

I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

~ Victor Webster

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time.

~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

~ Nick Saban

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

~ W. Edwards Deming

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

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

~ Norman Lear

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

~ Jane Goodall

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

~ James Cash Penney

Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.

~ Anne Robinson

Am I complicated? Nah, I'm interesting. I just like having a good time.

~ Gerry Cooney

If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.

~ Kyle Chandler

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

~ Jimmy Dean

'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.

~ Joe Jonas

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.

~ Alistair Overeem