Being A Good Person Quotes - Page 2

• I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Trying, Likes, Problem

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2001.

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• We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Believe, People, Goodness

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 09, 2014

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Player, Scoring Goals

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• I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Way, Good Person

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• you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Being Yourself, Novelists, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.

  Carly Simon

  Heart, Mean, Order

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• Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Law

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

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• It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.

  Anne Rice

  Clever, Hate, Heart

  "Anne Rice defends Paula Deen" by Erin Strecker, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2013.

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• I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

  Leah Remini

  Trying, Good Person, Good Things

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

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• Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Dream, Giving, Good Person

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• Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

  Erin Heatherton

  Personality, Good Person, Genuine

  "Victoria’s Secret Angel Erin Heatherton Reveals Her Idea of 'Sexy'" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2012.

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  No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

  Meek Mill

  Successful, Matter, Good Person

  Supercross.com Interview, supercross.com. November 19, 2012.

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• When you're a good person, good things happen to you. You shouldn't be a good person with the expectation of therefore deserving good things, but in its purest form, I believe when you do good, good comes back to you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Believe, Expectations, Good Person

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good... when things are rough... then who are you?

  Bob Myers

  Team, People, Trying

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• It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

  Michael Shannon

  Fighting, Order, Evil

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• Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

  David LaChapelle

  People, Photographer, Good Person

  "David LaChapelle: “I Would Rather Die Than Be a Serious Artist, or a Fake Artist”". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2010.

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• You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Bad Friend

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Good Person, Be Good

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

  Daniel Pearce

  Good Friend, Good Person, Humans

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• It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Good Person, Persons

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• It is more important to be a good person than a good player.

  Toni Nadal

  Player, Important, Good Person

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• I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

  Miranda Kerr

  Encouraging, Nice, Thinking

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• I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

  Rachel Johnson

  Worry, Trying, Facts

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• I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

  Julian Casablancas

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  "'Julian kisses my neck seven times then lunges for my lips'". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2003.

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