Good Person Quotes - Page 4

• The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Character, Helping, Moral

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.164, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Karma, Fate, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Daniel Handler from Jul 25, 2008

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• I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Grandfather, Alex, Bad Times

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• I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

  Mark Haddon

  Mother, Lying, Used

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• Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Vocabulary, Guarantees That

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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, Embarrassing, Gentleness

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was not my primary audience. It was that person you like who tells you they don't get poetry, and you think to yourself, aw man, what can I do for this good person?

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

  Mitch Albom

  Men, Blue, Life And Death

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• I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

  John Green

  Team, Persons, Good Writers

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Over You, Typing, Hang In There

  Source: www.avclub.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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• 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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• I like Steve Bannon. He is a good man. He is not a racist - I can tell you that. He's a good person, and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core. He makes me want to be a better person, but then he also sees me and reminds me that I am a good person.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Beautiful, Powerful, Husband

  Interview with Hillary Sawchuk, adrinkwith.com. March 22, 2016.

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• It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.

  Benjamin Booker

  Decision, Proud, Good Intentions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Confused, Long, Enemy

  "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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• I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

  Emma Watson

  I Love Him, Designer, Burberry

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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• I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

  R. Kelly

  Mother, Loving Life, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is more important to be a good person than a good player.

  Toni Nadal

  Player, Important, Persons

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• I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.

  Anna Karina

  Thinking, Years, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Becoming

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.

  Mark Teixeira

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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