974 private quotes tagged good

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”— Margaret Mitchell

“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.”— Peter Tosh

“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.”— Eric Cantona

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”— James Truslow Adams

“I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.”— Amy Grant

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”— Howard Aiken

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”— Zora Neale Hurston

“If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.”— John A. Simone, Sr.

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”— Gillian Anderson

“It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.”— Gary Busey

“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”— Mary McLeod Bethune

“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.”— Joseph Smith, Jr.

“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.”— Orson Scott Card

“I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.”— Matthew Perry

“Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.”— Usain Bolt

“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.”— Søren Kierkegaard

“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”— Jesse Jackson

“I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”— Harry Dean Stanton

“The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.”— Louis Farrakhan

“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”— Baltasar Gracian

“What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”— William James

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”— Karl Rove

“Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.”— Carroll O'Connor