Good People Quotes - Page 27

• I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

  Elayne Boosler

  Artist, People, Matter

  "Top 5 Things I'm Thankful for" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

  Penn Jillette

  Rights, Government, People

  Penn Jillette (1997). “Penn & Teller's how to Play in Traffic”, Boulevard

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• Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Player, Skills, People

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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Fun, Nice

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• Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, People

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• It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

  Mark Harmon

  People, Good Work, Easier

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• We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

  Robert Duvall

  People, Tears, Weakness

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Hip Hop, Generations

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

  Barbara Corcoran

  People, Determine, Percent

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2017

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• Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Grace, Goodness

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• Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

  Maya Banks

  Hard Times, People, Bumps

  Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

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• We have messed-up lives, but we’re good people and we have grace. And even though we don’t have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.

  Lacey Mosley

  People, Grace, Want

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• Treat your career like a bad boyfriend...
  Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Flirting, Careers

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• It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, People, Teach

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.9, Seal Press

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• Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Important

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Concern For Others, People

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.315, Princeton University Press

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• I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

  Cat Stevens

  Justice, People, Common Sense

  "A cat in a wild world" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  Kiana Tom

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Successful

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• So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hypocrisy, Choices, Important

  "Ender in Exile". Book by Orson Scott Card, November 11, 2008.

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• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

  William Saroyan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

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• Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil People, Done, Knows

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• Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Good Things, Humans

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