Good Quotes

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.

~ Maria Sharapova

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

~ Scott Ian

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

~ Chester W. Nimitz

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

~ Miranda Kerr

If you believe that your best years are behind you, you've guaranteed they are; I'm going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

~ Gina Barreca

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others the best way to gather is to scatter.

~ Thomas Brooks

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

~ Gary Ackerman

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 did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

~ Amy Grant

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I'm not the best singer in the world I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

~ Shawn Mendes

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

~ Summer Sanders

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

~ Dan Savage

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

~ Carl Bernstein

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

~ James Patterson

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

~ Al Franken

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

~ Kieran Culkin

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

~ Maria Callas

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

~ Peter Singer

I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.

~ Kate Upton

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

~ Donald Trump

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

~ Ringo Starr

The best is the enemy of the good.

~ Voltaire

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

~ Samuel Pepys

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

~ Cavett Robert

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

~ Mason Cooley

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

~ James Lafferty

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

~ Henry Petroski

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

~ Philip Zimbardo

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

~ Thomas Sowell

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

~ M. Scott Peck

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

~ John Barrasso

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

~ Steven Johnson

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

~ Samuel L. Jackson