Be Good Quotes - Page 9

• There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

  Ben Affleck

  Marriage, Hard Work, Two

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• Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

  Gregory Maguire

  Struggle, Devil, Doe

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

  Peter Drucker

  Justified, Enterprise, Free Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.29, Routledge

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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  Walter Mosley

  Black, World, Bedtime

  "In his latest mystery, Walter Mosley takes Easy to new turf, to '60s San Francisco. Far out, man." by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2005.

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• I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

  Gary Kemp

  Art, Would Be, Shame

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• I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Lasts, Facts, Poet

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• It is typically Norwegian to be good

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Norwegians

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• Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  "Billy Graham’s grandson takes Christians to task: An interview with Tullian Tchividjian". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Gabe Newell: "Windows 8 Is Kind Of A Catastrophe" By Dan Crabtree, www.ign.com. July 25, 2012.

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• That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

  Mary Astell

  Heart, Men, Endowment

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

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• I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

  King James I

  Mother, War, Errors

  On Roman Catholics, at the opening of parliament, 1604.

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• None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Opportunity, Temptation, Known

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.84

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• I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Evil, Feelings, Done

  Ruth St. Denis (1969). “Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life: an autobiography”, [Dance Horizons, 1969

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• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

  Rafer Johnson

  Motivational, Athlete, Effort

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• What's tough is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Sports, Game Day

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• How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Stars, Moving, Self

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

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• Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic... There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Running, Moving, Blow

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• China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

  Mark Mobius

  Relationship, Aggravation, Differences

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• Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

  William McDonough

  Trying, Earnest, Redesign

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Sex, Like You, Enjoy

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• Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Clever, May

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• Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Greatness

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• The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.

  Chris Murray

  Hard Times, Important, Good Times

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• Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  Vida Blue

  Games, Lucky, Sometimes

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