Good And Bad Quotes

• 

  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

  120 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

  Anita Nair

  Light, Darkness, Half

  Anita Nair (2001). “Ladies Coupé: A Novel in Parts”, p.212, Penguin Books India

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

  Deepak Chopra

  Independent, Fearless, Opinion

  12 Copy quote

• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

  Leif Garrett

  Believe, Sleep, Bed

  13 Copy quote

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

  187 Copy quote

  Show source

• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

  Lisa See

  Quality, Bad Qualities, Enough

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.5, Random House

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Book, Humor

  New Yorker, 21 Nov. 1977

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Medicine, Poison, Coins

  48 Copy quote

• The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Evil, Victory

  34 Copy quote

• God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Character, Calling

  Twitter post from Sep 29, 2016

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

  Jean Vanier

  Hate, Light, People

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.42, Paulist Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  A. J. Hartley

  Strong, Battle, World

  5 Copy quote

• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Passion, Light

  "The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard" edited and translated by Alexander Dru, 1959.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

  David Icke

  Situation, Term, Complexes

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

  Dante Alighieri

  Perfect, Treatment, Susceptible

  26 Copy quote

• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mood Changes, Bad Times, Fortune

  22 Copy quote

• I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

  John Wooden

  Running, Player, Trying

  "Wooden Remembers Booster" by Neil Amdur, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 1982.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  Gary Oldman

  Courage, Compassion, Justice

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

  Steven Pinker

  Work Out, Robots, Goodness

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Killing Yourself, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

  42 Copy quote

• When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Western Movie, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

  1503 Copy quote

  Show source