Be Good Quotes - Page 23

• If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Woe, Ifs

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.530, Delphi Classics

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• It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Kindness, Helping, Make You Happy

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• We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Angel, Men, Good Man

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• I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.

  Walter Cronkite

  Thinking, Definitions, Causes

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• I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.

  Walter Cronkite

  Thinking, Political, Causes

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• Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Giving, Community

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• Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

  Esther Hicks

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Matter

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• You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Women, Bed, Keyboards

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• Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Games, Common Sense

  "Kmart And Wal-Mart To Check IDs For Mature Games". www.ign.com. September 7, 2000.

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• I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Knowing, Evil, Desire

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• But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Attitude, Men, Judging

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Solitude, Wells, Company

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Struggle, Men, Order

  "Letters to the Schools, Volume I". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, p. 12, 1981.

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• Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

  Sivananda

  Men, Done, Action

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• A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

  Euripides

  Home, Should

  "Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Admiration, Kind, Looking Good

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.113

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• There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

  David Duchovny

  Acting, Moments, Good Acting

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

  Judd Apatow

  Suffering, Ordinary, Want

  "Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, and Roseanne Barr Talk Judaism, F-bombs, and Radical Feminism". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Ideas, News

  "An Observation Regarding Fact-checking and Journalism From an Outsider" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Medicine

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• The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

  Catherine McAuley

  Lessons, Today, Tomorrow

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• In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Years, Cities

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• God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

  Andrew Comiskey

  Men, Broken, Design

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• Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Assassins, Revolutionary, Enough

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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