Good Quotes

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

~ Olive Schreiner

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

~ Mark Gatiss

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

~ Aeschylus

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

~ Black Elk

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

~ Ron Chernow

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.

~ Michael Specter

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

~ Marilyn Manson

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

~ Darren Aronofsky

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

~ Niall Ferguson

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

~ Robin Quivers

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

~ Andrew Lincoln

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

~ Joyce Banda

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

~ Barbara Sher

You're only as good as the people you hire.

~ Ray Kroc

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

~ Peter Drucker

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

~ Casey Stengel

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

~ Deepak Chopra

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

~ Robert Kraft

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

~ Gautam Gambhir

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

~ Ingvar Kamprad

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

~ Jim Rohn

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

~ Nick Saban

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

~ Tony Fernandes

When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

~ Carl Paladino

I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just felt like Jon was on my side. I'll always be grateful to him for that. I just got the impression he wanted me to succeed, and then I wanted to succeed for him. I think that's good leadership.

~ Rob Riggle

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

~ Steven Spielberg

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.

~ Charles Kennedy

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

~ Tim Tebow

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

~ Michael Bloomberg

There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

~ David Cameron

I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.

~ Dana Perino

The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

~ J. D. Vance

I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I'm good at the leadership part. But I've always said that I'm a terrible manager. I'm not good at giving feedback.

~ Stewart Butterfield

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

~ John Eldredge

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

~ Gerry Adams

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.

~ Philip Zimbardo

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

~ Brian Sandoval

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

~ Patty Hearst

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

~ Thandie Newton

Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.

~ Evelyn Lauder