Good People Quotes - Page 27

• We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

  Robert Duvall

  People, Tears, Weakness

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• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hurt, Drinking, Food

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Hip Hop, Generations

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

  Mark Harmon

  People, Good Work, Easier

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• Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, People

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• I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Fun, Nice

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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Player, Skills, People

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• When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  Kiana Tom

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Successful

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Good Things, Humans

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• Good people drink good beer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Drinking, Beer

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• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

  William Saroyan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

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• It's such a happiness when good people get together.

  Jane Austen

  People, Together, Get Together

  Jane Austen (1867). “Emma: A Novel”, p.160

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• Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, People, Praying

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.192, Hamilton Books

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• Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil People, Done, Knows

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• Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

  Maya Banks

  Hard Times, People, Bumps

  Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

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• There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

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• Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

  Bob Riley

  People, Evil, Community

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• Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Important

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, People, Teach

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.9, Seal Press

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• Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Grace, Goodness

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• We have messed-up lives, but we’re good people and we have grace. And even though we don’t have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.

  Lacey Mosley

  People, Grace, Want

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• Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

  Penn Jillette

  Rights, Government, People

  Penn Jillette (1997). “Penn & Teller's how to Play in Traffic”, Boulevard

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• Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

  Barbara Corcoran

  People, Determine, Percent

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2017

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