Be Good Quotes - Page 20

• I had been fighting since 1998 and knowing that this was going to be my last fight – I was not going to leave any questions or anything out there as far as, ‘Could I have done anything different?’ I was going to give this everything I had. My last memories of being a fighter were going to be good ones.

  Chris Lytle

  Memories, Fighting, Knowing

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• Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Sports, Greek, Trying

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

  Shirley Knight

  New York, Goal, Study

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• Run from being good. Chase being great.

  Chip Kelly

  Running

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• Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

  Jessica Zafra

  Boredom, Healthy, Soul

  Jessica Zafra (1998). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Challenges, Cry

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• Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

  Phillips Brooks

  Dark, Hands, Praying

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The light of the world, and other sermons”

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• Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Trying, Originals

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• In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals which have made this country great. We must reaffirm the basic human values that have guided our forefathers. A revival of old-fashioned patriotism and a grateful acknowledgment of what our country has done for us would be good for all our souls.

  Manton S. Eddy

  Country, Grateful, Soul

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• You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

  Seth Godin

  Night, Good Enough, Settling

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

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• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Broken, Perfect

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

  Colman McCarthy

  Easy, Results, Ifs

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• A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Girl, Sleep, Men

  Helen Gurley Brown (2012). “Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

  David A. Bednar

  Desire, Enabling, Atonement

  "The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality". www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Gains, Revolution, Taxes

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• The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.

  Sam Tomkins

  Struggle, Player, Rugby League

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• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

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• You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

  Faye Dunaway

  Style, Teeth, Done

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

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• I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

  Black Francis

  Rocks, Looks, Want

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• It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Good Movie, Dollars

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• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Book, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Way

  Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 2

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• Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

  F. H. Bradley

  Anxiety, Worst, Knows

  'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on pessimism)

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