Good Person Quotes - Page 12

• I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Teacher, Role Models

  "Carrie Underwood Interview SOUL SURFER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 7, 2011.

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• To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Speak, Ill, Persons

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• No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Persons

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.899, Macmillan

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• I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Persons

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• Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.

  Jay Park

  Hard Work, Special, Enjoy

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• I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

  Meredith Vieira

  Mother, Wife, Kind

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.

  Cindy McCain

  Feet, Trying, Way

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

  Harry Hamlin

  Men, Trying, Quality

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• I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Player, Scoring Goals

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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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• I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.

  Nicki Minaj

  Smell, Rose, Next

  "Nicki Minaj Continues Newsstand Domination With Complex Cover" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2012.

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• We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Genuine, Humans

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• It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

  John Wall

  Nice, Player, Want

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• When I was younger, Lisa Leslie inspired me a whole lot. She was someone I looked up to and wanted to be like. I really believe she is a good person. Hopefully, she can find out I am the same.

  Lauren Jackson

  Believe, Inspired, Leslie

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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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• You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

  Matthew Quick

  Desire, Needs, Action

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

  Ishmael Beah

  Believe, Heart, Views

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• I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

  Carole King

  Writing, People, Feel Good

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• It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Being A Good Person, Persons

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

  Miranda Kerr

  Nice, Moving, Responsibility

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• Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Dream, Giving, Valuable

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• But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

  Karen Kingsbury

  People, Way, Sometimes

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• I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Team, Player

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• Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Mom, Mother, Way

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.193, Penguin

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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Good People, Systems Thinking, Beats

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