“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
“Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.”
“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”
“I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.”
“If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.”
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”
“After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”
“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.”
“1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.”
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“Liars need to have good memories.”
“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.”
“I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.”
“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.”