974 private quotes tagged good

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”— Benjamin Disraeli

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”— Socrates

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”— Rabindranath Tagore

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.”— Ernest Hemingway

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”— Walt Whitman

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”— Winston Churchill

“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”— Plato

“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.”— Elbert Hubbard

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Only the young die good.”— Oliver Herford

“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The best is the enemy of the good.”— Voltaire

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”— Anne Frank

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”— Anne Frank

“You can do more good by being good than any other way.”— John Wooden

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”— Mark Twain

“A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.”— Bodhidharma

“You're only as good as your last haircut.”— Fran Lebowitz

“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.”— Michael Jordan

“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?”— LeBron James

“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”— Kurt Vonnegut

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”— Carl Rogers

“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.”— Adam Sandler

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”— Lewis Carroll

“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”— Deepak Chopra