Be Good Quotes - Page 30

• The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

  Sophocles

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

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• We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Rocks, Trying

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• Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Character, Order, Catholic

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

  John Irving

  Wrestling, Tennis, Musical

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• I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

  Robin Williams

  Fun, Kids, Wrestling

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• Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?

  Ron Rosenbaum

  Evil, Perfect, Marxist

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• Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.

  Bipasha Basu

  Good Friend, People, Broken

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• I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Years, Paper, Toilets

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• If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.

  Behdad Sami

  Lying, Ifs

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• I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

  Bill Gates

  School, Tests, Sixth Grade

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• I like not to be good at anything, so I keep hopping around.

  Jon Stewart

  Hopping

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• I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Thinking, Church, England

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• With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

  Flip Wilson

  Weekend, People, Laughing

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• I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

  Nikki Sixx

  Trying, I Can

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• You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

  Kevin Hart

  Fall, Kids, People

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• When you're coming up with new material, it's not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it's working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You're constantly rebuilding.

  Kevin Hart

  Next Day, Laughing, Different

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, preaching); but if they are not undertaken in a spirit of complete reliance upon the Holy Spirit, then the flesh is the source of all. The old creation is willing to do anything-even to submit to God - if only it is permitted to live and to be active.

  Watchman Nee

  Reading, Godly, Evil

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.40, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

  Taylor Swift

  People, My Best Friend, Musician

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• Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Quality, Would Be, Plans

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• It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.

  Leopold Infeld

  Sunday, Life And Death, Transition

  Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

  Terry Pratchett

  Encouragement, Knowing

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• Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Waiting

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• It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

  Edward Norton

  Government, Germany, Proud

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• Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Standards Set, Being The Best, Lows

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