Be Good Quotes - Page 24

• What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Men, Done

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.219, Macmillan

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• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Beautiful, Mom, Appreciate

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• It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Hands, Empowering

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

  Hank Aaron

  Mean, Play, Color

  Hank Aaron, Furman Bisher (1974). “Aaron”, Ty Crowell Company

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• I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

  Bob Dole

  Book, Mean, Guy

  "Cabinet members defend Bush from O'Neill". edition.cnn.com. January 12, 2004.

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• There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

  C. Terry Warner

  Ideas, Differences, Way

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• I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

  George Eliot

  Women, Men, One Woman

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.100, Penguin

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• Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Father, Work

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Doubt, Liberty

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 44), 2013.

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• It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Errors, Causes, Common

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wise, Ends, Claims

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Mean, Men, Teeth

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Communication, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

  Martin Luther

  Tree, Doe, Way

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.865, Fortress Press

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• It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

  David Hockney

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  1978 David Hockney.

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• The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Real, Writing, Genius

  "Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 355. In conversation with Isaac Glikman (July 4, 1966), January 30, 1997.

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• There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moments, Good Moments

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• Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

  Peter Jennings

  Funny, Mean, Good Day

  "Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War". Book by Howard Kurtz, 2007.

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• I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.

  Heidi Klum

  Mom, Years, People

  "Celeb New Year's Resolutions for 2011: Amy Poehler, Ryan Seacrest, Heidi Klum and more". www.mcall.com. January 05, 2011.

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• TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

  Jimmy Carr

  Thinking, People, Three

  "Carr's a comic with universal appeal" by Paddy Hoey, Daily Post, July 15, 2005.

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• It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

  Tucker Carlson

  May, Conservative, Impossible

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, February 11, 2005.

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  Just because you're good in something doesn't mean you'll necessarily be good in something else. You just try and chase opportunities that you fall in love with or that inspire you and keep doing the work.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Falling In Love, Mean, Opportunity

  "Tom Hiddleston Talks THE AVENGERS Aftermath, the Darker Tone, His Ownership of the Character, and More on the Set of THOR: THE DARK WORLD". Interview on the Set, collider.com. October 1, 2013.

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• People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

  Denzel Washington

  Cutting, Men, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

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