Be Good Quotes - Page 15

• There are two ways love can go. You can be good to each other or you could not play fair.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Two, Way

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• I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

  Louis C. K.

  Stupid, Years, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Guitar, Ukulele

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• To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Whole

  Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

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• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  Randy Pausch

  Last Lecture, Valuable, Childhood Dreams

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Summer, Fighting, Ideas

  Mary Baker Eddy (1906). “Science Et Santé”

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• Oh, lady be good To me.

  Ira Gershwin

  "Oh, Lady, Be Good!" (song) (1924)

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• Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

  George Farquhar

  Latin

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 2

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• 'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

  George Crabbe

  Son, Advice, Good Advice

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.245

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• If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

  J. I. Packer

  Theologian

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• Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

  Christian Louboutin

  Perfect, Needs, Should

  The Hottest Stories in Fashion This Month (Plus, My Q&A With Christian Louboutin!)" by Rajni Lucienne Jacques, www.glamour.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

  Paul Arden

  Sacrifice, Want, Prepared

  "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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• You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Thinking, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 06, 2015

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• Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

  Victor LaValle

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, People, Healthy

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• I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

  Shakira

  Children, Nice, Kids

  "The making of Saint Shakira" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Feelings, Actors, Wrecks

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

  Michael Fassbender

  Names, Choices, Want

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Art, Lucky, Actors

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Interview with Filip Vukcevic, www.ign.com. September 19, 2007.

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• It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, Want

  "Obama Fires a ‘Robin Hood’ Warning Shot". nypost.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Sarah Vowell

  College, Ideas, People

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