Be Good Quotes - Page 34

• Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Games, Common Sense

  "Kmart And Wal-Mart To Check IDs For Mature Games". www.ign.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Guitar, Ukulele

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• I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Knowing, Evil, Desire

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• To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Whole

  Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

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• You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Thinking, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 06, 2015

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• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  Randy Pausch

  Last Lecture, Valuable, Childhood Dreams

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Summer, Fighting, Ideas

  Mary Baker Eddy (1906). “Science Et Santé”

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• Oh, lady be good To me.

  Ira Gershwin

  "Oh, Lady, Be Good!" (song) (1924)

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• Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

  George Farquhar

  Latin

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 2

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• 'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

  George Crabbe

  Son, Advice, Good Advice

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.245

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• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Admiration, Kind, Looking Good

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.113

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• If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

  David Duchovny

  Acting, Moments, Good Acting

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

  Judd Apatow

  Suffering, Ordinary, Want

  "Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, and Roseanne Barr Talk Judaism, F-bombs, and Radical Feminism". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

  J. I. Packer

  Theologian

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• Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Ideas, News

  "An Observation Regarding Fact-checking and Journalism From an Outsider" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

  Christian Louboutin

  Perfect, Needs, Should

  The Hottest Stories in Fashion This Month (Plus, My Q&A With Christian Louboutin!)" by Rajni Lucienne Jacques, www.glamour.com. September 29, 2011.

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• The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

  Catherine McAuley

  Lessons, Today, Tomorrow

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• In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Years, Cities

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• You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Memories, Memorable, Thinking

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'My food is really emotional'" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Feelings, Actors, Wrecks

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Beautiful, Mom, Appreciate

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• It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Hands, Empowering

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

  Paul Arden

  Sacrifice, Want, Prepared

  "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.

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