Top 100 Good Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best good quotes ever written, picked out of the full good archive on QuoteForever. You will find Francis Bacon, Martin Seligman, Robert A. Heinlein and Joseph Smith, Jr. among them.

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1

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.

2

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

3

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.

4

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

5

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

6

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

7

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

8

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

9

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

10

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

11

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

12

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

13

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

14

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

15

Good order is the foundation of all things.

16

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

17

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

18

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

19

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

20

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

21

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

22

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

23

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

24

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

25

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

26

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

27

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

28

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

29

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

30

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

31

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

32

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

33

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat.

34

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

35

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

36

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

37

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

38

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

39

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

40

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

41

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

42

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

43

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

44

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

45

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

46

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

47

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

48

The essence of good government is trust.

49

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

50

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

51

It's good to be anywhere.

52

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

53

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

54

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.

55

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

56

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

57

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

58

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

59

It's good to shut up sometimes.

60

We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.

61

The good of the people is the greatest law.

62

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

63

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

64

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

65

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

66

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

67

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

68

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

69

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

70

When you think positive, good things happen.

71

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

72

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

73

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

74

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

75

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

76

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

77

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

78

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

79

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

80

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

81

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

82

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

83

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

84

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

85

Good questions outrank easy answers.

86

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

87

We all have the duty to do good.

88

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

89

A liar should have a good memory.

90

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

91

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

92

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

93

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

94

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

95

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

96

Baseball has been very good to me.

97

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

98

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

99

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

100

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

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