Being A Good Person Quotes - Page 4

• The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

  Criss Jami

  Heaven, Good Person, Christ

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.16, Criss Jami

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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• I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God exits, that He loves us and He cares for us? What does it mean to love and forgive each other? Parents and caregivers of children must play a primary role in returning our society to a healthy sense of the sacred. We must commit to feeding our children’s souls in the same way we commit to feeding their bodies.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

  Lykke Li

  Art, Reality, Escaping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

  Zendaya

  Running, People, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

  FKA twigs

  Believe, Good Person, Polite

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Want, Working With Others

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Men, Everyday Things, Decision

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• The only thing that I can personally turn to is compassion, gentleness, a willingness to allow myself to be angry instead of like why am I so angry. It's so embarrassing. I've got to let this go. I'm not going to be a good person if I walk around angry like this.

  Laura Dern

  Compassion, Good Person, Embarrassing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

  Daniel Olivas

  Crazy, Father, Book

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• I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

  Kevin James

  Teacher, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Talking about the fact that I get depressed or that I've had some suicidal issues in my life is not easy. I don't know of many comedians who are going all in on that. In some sense, I think I've maybe sacrificed some momentum doing that. In another sense, I'm in a place where if I can talk about that and if it helps some kid in a way that gives them some help that wasn't available to me when I was a kid, then I gotta do that. Put being a good person first. If you have a platform, use it for stuff that's noble and good and worth putting out in the world.

  Chris Gethard

  Suicidal, Kids, Thinking

  Source: razorcake.org

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• It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

  Simon Rich

  Children, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mom didn't teach me about Marco Polo. She didn't teach me about Napoleon. She didn't teach me about any of that. But she did teach me how to survive and to be a good person. And you need to be a strong woman to do that. She's the biggest person in my life. She's my Virgin Maria. That's why I love religion so much.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Strong Women, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

  Craig Zobel

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.

  Britney Spears

  Responsibility, Thinking, Worry

  Interview with Diane Sawyer, "60 Minutes", November 23, 2003.

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• You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

  Peter Abrahams

  Good Person, Badness, Shows

  Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Hard Work, Way, Strange

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to be a good person that day. Seeking requires me to sacrifice the things I feel compelled to chase so I can be available to notice God’s clear direction. Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Dear Lord, forgive me for all the times I’ve rushed by Your gifts and overlooked Your blessings. Today, I want to pause and really seek You with all I’ve got. I love You, Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Morning, Jesus, Reading

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• My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

  Mark Prior

  Player, Parent, Good Person

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• People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Struggle, Years

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• Life is painful sometimes. It touches everyone, so you may as well try to look for other answers and find peace. So, it is difficult to write those types of things because nobody wants to tell sad stories. I think that I'll always tell stories about human hope. I would love to be able to tell somebody, "It's okay. It's all right. Be a good person." That's what my job is, in life.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

  Joan Jett

  Want, Reputation, Good Person

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